Built infrastructures are increasingly disrupted by climate-related extreme events. Being able to monitor what climate change implies for US infrastructures is of considerable importance to all levels of decision-makers. A capacity to develop cross-cutting, widely applicable indicators for more than a dozen different kinds of infrastructure, however, is severely limited at present. The development of such indicators must be considered an ongoing activity that will require expansion and refinement. A number of recent consensus reports suggest four priorities for indicators that portray the impacts of climate change, climate-related extreme events, and other driving forces on infrastructure. These are changes in the reliability of infrastructure services and the implications for costs; changes in the resilience of infrastructures to climate and other stresses; impacts due to the interdependencies of infrastructures; and ongoing adaptation in infrastructures.

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气候变化风险下美国基础设施绩效指标

已建成的基础设施越来越多地受到与气候相关的极端事件的破坏。能够监测气候变化对美国基础设施的影响对于各级决策者来说都非常重要。然而，目前为十几种不同类型的基础设施制定跨领域、广泛适用的指标的能力受到严重限制。此类指标的制定必须被视为一项需要扩展和完善的持续活动。最近的一些共识报告提出了描绘气候变化、气候相关极端事件和其他驱动力对基础设施影响的指标的四个优先事项。这些是基础设施服务可靠性的变化及其对成本的影响；基础设施对气候和其他压力的适应能力发生变化；由于基础设施的相互依赖而产生的影响；以及基础设施的持续调整。