世界银行-衡量电力部门的气候适应能力：协调而非同质化（英）

A KNOWLEDGE NOTE SERIES FOR THE ENERGY & EXTRACTIVES GLOBAL PRACTICE2025/146AUGUST 2025Measuring the Climate Resilience of the Power Sector: Harmonization, Not HomogenizationAuthorThe bottom line. Although by its very nature climate resilience can never be fully “standardized”, the development and mainstreaming of climate resilience metrics can benefit from greater consensus around key topics. Areas such as metric categories, methodologies, and reporting frameworks can be aligned through coordinated efforts among regulators, utilities, and other stakeholders, enabling more consistent, effective, and scalable resilience planning across the sector. The key is harmonization and not homogenization.Reports have consistently raised the alarm about shortfalls in policy development, technical capacity, and investment in climate resilience across sectors, despite intensifying climate risks. In low- and middle-income countries, each additional year of inadequate attention paid to fortifying infrastructure against climate risks, including in the power sector, could cost an additional $100 billion in otherwise avoidable dam-age (CDRI 2024).Given the severity of the challenge, why haven’t climate risks already been integrated into power sector planning? A key barrier is the absence of metrics to measure, monitor, and manage climate-related risks Although robust standards and procedures exist for assess-ing reliability and resource adequacy needs, there is no universally recognized framework to measure progress toward meeting the unique resilience challenges posed Selena Jihyun Lee is an energy specialist in the Global Energy Knowledge and Expertise Unit of the Energy and Extractives Global Practice at the World Bank.Climate change is taking a toll on the power system. Its consequences already challenge every segment of the system, from fuel supply to generation and distribution—with direct effects on business productivity, the delivery of critical services, and jobs. However, much of today’s power system was designed with limited consideration of climate change. Considering that it will play a pivotal role in com-ing decades—driven by growing demand for electrification of many sectors, rapidly growing demand for electricity for air conditioning and data centers, and expansion of energy access—the power system’s resilience against growing cli-mate and disaster risks grows ever more crucial.Yet according to the International Energy Agency (2022), a quarter of the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development lack a national plan that focuses on the climate resilience of energy systems, even though half of them face a substantial climate risk. The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Public Disclosure AuthorizedPublic Disclosure AuthorizedPublic Disclosure AuthorizedPublic Disclosure AuthorizedMeasuring the Climate Resilience of the Power Sector: Harmonization, Not Homogenization2by high-impact, low-frequency events, suc