Existing Plans & Pathways

Some countries listed only have a simplified pathway, while others have much more in depth climate action plans. There's also some action plans in here with very specific and narrow topics, including management of water resources, or specific biomes, as well as plans with suggested crops to help farmers adapt to climate chance as wells as dietary change roadmaps to limit climate change, pollution, and improve food security.

This resource will continue to grow as we find more plans from around the world.

International

• C40 Knowledge Hub: Mapped Cities with a Climate Action Plan 

Africa

• Which Crops Have the Most Potential in a Changing Climate? Use the tabs at the top of this site to narrow your search to vegetables, fruit, etc. Includes a colour-blind option in the top right corner.

Algeria

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Algeria

Angola

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Angola

Botswana

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Botswana

Cameroon

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Cameroon

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Congo

Egypt

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Egypt

Ethiopia

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Ethiopia

Ghana

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Ghana

Kenya

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Kenya

Morocco

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Morocco

Mosambique

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Mozambique

Namibia

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Namibia

Nigeria

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Nigeria

Senegal

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Senegal

South Africa

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: South Africa

Tanzania

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Tanzania

The Gambia

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: The Gambia

Zimbabwe

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Zimbabwe

Asia

Bangladesh

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Bangladesh

Bhutan

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Bhutan

China

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: China

India

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: India

Indonesia

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Indonesia

Israel

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Israel

Japan

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Japan

Kazakhstan

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Kazakhstan

Malaysia

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Maylaysia 

Myanmar

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Myanmar 

Nepal

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Nepal

Pakistan

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Pakistan

Philippines

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Philippines

Qatar

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Qatar

South Korea

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: South Korea

Saudi Arabia

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Saudi Arabia

Singapore

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Singapore

Sri Lanka

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Sri Lanka

Thailand

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Thailand

Turkey

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Turkiye

United Arab Emirates

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: United Arab Emirates

Vietnam

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Viet Nam

Europe

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: The European Union

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Czech Republic

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Czech Republic

Denmark

• Ministry for Food & Fisheries of Denmark: Danish Action Plan for Plant-based Foods 

France

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: France

Germany

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Germany

Italy

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Italy

Norway

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Norway

Poland

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Poland

Romania

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Romania

Russia

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Russia

Serbia

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Serbia

Spain

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Spain

Switzerland

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Switzerland

Ukraine

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Ukraine

Oceana

Australia

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Australia

New Zealand

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: New Zealand

South America

Argentina

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Argentina

Brazil

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Brazil

Chile

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Chile

Colombia

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Colombia

Ecuador

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Ecuador

Peru

• 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer: Peru

Tools & Calculators

Climate Change

• En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator "is a fast, powerful climate solutions scenario tool for understanding how we can achieve our climate goals through changes in energy, land use, consumption, agriculture, and other policies. The simulator focuses on how changes in global GDP, energy efficiency, technological innovation, and carbon price influence carbon emissions, global temperature, and other factors. It is designed to provide a synthesis of the best available science on climate solutions and put it at the fingertips of groups in policy workshops and roleplaying games. These experiences enable people to explore the long-term climate impacts of global policy and investment decisions.
  
  En-ROADS is being developed by Climate Interactive, Ventana Systems, UML Climate Change Initiative, and MIT Sloan.
  
  This guide provides background on the dynamics of En-ROADS, tips for using the simulator, general descriptions, real-world examples, slider settings, and model structure notes for the different sliders in En-ROADS."

North America

USA

• Green Infrastructure Effectiveness Database "This database is a compilation of literature resources documenting the effectiveness and economics of nature-based solutions and Green Infrastructure for coastal resilience."

• Rewiring America: Track Your Local Pace of Progress "These projections from Rewiring America worked backwards from the emissions targets for 2050, and forward from current sales of machines for cooking, water heating, space heating, transportation, and rooftop solar to set a number of new clean electric machines that must be sold each year to reduce emissions from fossil-fueled machines. Type your city, county, or state into the search bar to get those numbers broken down for your area, by each machine category.
  
  While creating this tool, one of things we found is that some individual communities and states are leading the way: their goals are bolder than the rest of the country and so don’t match the path laid out in our data. That’s a great problem to have. So our tool should not be considered the only source of its kind -- but one that reflects only one of the possible paths to decarbonization."

Minnesota

• Path to the River Tool 

Resources

International

• Multiple Opportunities for Scaling Up Climate Action. Panel (a) " presents selected mitigation and adaptation options across different systems. The left hand side of panel a shows climate responses and adaptation options assessed for their multidimensional feasibility at global scale, in the near term and up to 1.5°C global warming. As literature above 1.5°C is limited, feasibility at higher levels of warming may change, which is currently not possible to assess robustly. The term response is used here in addition to adaptation because some responses, such as migration, relocation and resettlement may or may not be considered to be adaptation. ..."

• Plastic Smart Cities: City Action Plan "Develop an action plan with key stakeholders and put in place high-impact interventions to reduce plastic pollution."

• Plastic Smart Cities: Best Practice Approaches "committed to implementing global approaches that prevent, minimise and manage plastic, both as a resource, and as a waste. We encourage you to explore our growing catalogue below, and further contribute to the Plastic Smart Cities community by submitting your own for consideration and inclusion."

Africa

• Which Crops Have the Most Potential in a Changing Climate? Use the tabs at the top of this site to narrow your search to vegetables, fruit, etc. Includes a colour-blind option in the top right corner.

Europe

Denmark

• Ministry for Food & Fisheries of Denmark: Danish Action Plan for Plant-based Foods 

Organizations

International

• Plastic Smart Cities "is a WWF initiative that supports a no plastic in nature agenda. Since 2018, the initiative has supported cities and coastal centers in taking bold action to stop plastic pollution, with a goal to reduce plastic leakage into nature by 30% in the near term, and achieving no plastics in nature by 2030."

North America

USA

• Anthropocene Alliance (A2) "has almost 300 member-communities in 41 U.S. states and territories. They are impacted by flooding, toxic waste, wildfires, and drought and heat — all compounded by reckless development and climate change. The consequence is broken lives and a ravaged environment.

The goal of A2 is to help communities fight back. We do that by providing them organizing support, scientific and technical guidance, and better access to foundation and government funding. Most of all, our work consists of listening to our frontline leaders. Their experience, research, and solidarity guide everything we do, and offer a path toward environmental and social justice.

Supported by outstanding partner organizations with expertise in engineering, hydrology, public health, planning, and the law, A2 leaders have successfully halted developments in climate-vulnerable areas; implemented nature-based hazard mitigation strategies; organized home buyouts; and pushed for clean-ups at superfund sites, toxic landfills, and petrochemical plants.

We support everyone we can, but our special priority is people who have suffered the worst environmental impacts for the longest time; that usually means low-income, Black, Latinx, Native American and other underserved communities.

To learn about our policies, read our A 10-Point Platform on Climate Change."

• Smart Growth America "empowers communities through technical assistance, advocacy and thought leadership to create livable places, healthy people, and shared prosperity. We work with elected officials at all levels, real estate developers, chambers of commerce, transportation and urban planning professionals, and residents to improve everyday life for people across the country through better development."

New York

• The Office of Resilient Homes and Communities "strives to address communities’ most urgent needs, while also encouraging the identification of innovative and enduring solutions to strengthen the State’s infrastructure and critical systems. The office utilizes approximately $4.4 billion in flexible funding made available by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program to concentrate aid to four main areas. Paired with additional federal funding that has been awarded to other State agencies, the CDBG-DR program is enabling homeowners, small businesses and entire communities to build back even better than before. And in a State already known for its great resiliency and can-do spirit, the efforts are paving the way for a tremendous comeback– one that will reinvigorate New York and better prepare it for future extreme weather events that come its way."

Maps

International

• C40 Knowledge Hub: Mapped Cities with a Climate Action Plan 

North America

USA

• C2ES: US State Climate Action Plans (Interactive) "In this map we have included states which have developed PCAPs, as the plans demonstrate a decisive first step toward meaningful climate action. However, implementation of these plans may depend on external funding, and submission of a plan cannot be interpreted as a standalone commitment. We have noted which states were awarded implementation grants, indicating that they are most likely to follow through with their priority measures."

• Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper "Jumpstart community discussions about local coastal flooding hazards by developing maps that show the people, places, and natural resources at risk."

• PIRG: Interactive Map of Lawn Mower and Leaf Blower Policies "This interactive map shows which cities, states and companies have taken action to cut pollution and noise from gas-powered lawn equipment."

Grants & Funding

North America

USA

• About CPRG Implementation Grants

Minnesota

• Watershed Management Planning Grants 🌊 "are intended to assist organizations to plan and prepare documentation for a project that will be implemented in the near future. Planning Grants help fund the planning process for detailed projects that help improve water quality through construction, education, outreach, or other creative ways."