CDP Adaptation and Action Explorer
Make better decisions on local and regional risk management, and respond with greater intelligence with the CDP Adaptation and Action Explorer. An AI-powered public purpose platform, the Explorer tool helps cities, states and regions understand physical climate and nature risks, link these to current actions, and identify effective adaptation pathways.
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Please note, the Explorer may be unavailable to users in regions without access to Google services or products.
Cities, states, and regions are increasingly exposed to climate hazards such as flooding, heat, drought, and wildfires.
Existing climate hazard and resilience data is often fragmented across platforms, highly technical, and difficult to interpret without specialist expertise. At the same time, there is no standardized way for local governments to signal their readiness, needs, and opportunities to funders and partners – limiting collaboration and investment in their adaptation and resilience.
In collaboration with Google.org – through the Google.org Fellowship – CDP has developed the Adaptation and Action Explorer to address this challenge.
The Explorer integrates adaptation data reported by governments through CDP's annual Cities and States & Regions questionnaires, hazard data from Google Earth Engine, and (artificial intelligence) AI to provide tailored, actionable intelligence for resilience planning.
The platform goes beyond diagnostics, helping governments to prioritize actions, justify budgets, and communicate readiness to funders.
What the Explorer offers
Using data from more than 1,000 subnational governments across the globe on risk and vulnerability assessments, adaptation actions, and climate projects seeking finance, the platform integrates CDP’s city, state and regional disclosures with high quality climate and nature hazard data to provide a unified view of risk, public action, and readiness.
The Explorer enables users to move beyond exposure, to understand whether risks are being addressed and what this means for planning, funding, and partnerships. Its AI – grounded in CDP and approved datasets – helps users navigate complex information without offering prescriptive recommendations. Ode Partners participated in the development of the Explorer with CDP.
The Explorer is powered by data covering:
disclosing governments across 80 countries
of the global population
of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil (approximately)
Cities, States and Regions Open Data Portal
Download and explore publicly available climate change and sustainability datasets from more than 1,000 city, state and regional governments as reported via CDP-ICLEI Track. CDP's annual cities, states and regions datasets are used by thousands of researchers, policymakers and investors to inform Earth-positive decisions.
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