AdaptBase Plans is an open archive of city-level climate adaptation and urban resilience plans
from around the world — assembled to make it easier for researchers, planners, and policymakers
to find, compare, and learn from what cities are actually doing to prepare for climate change.
What's in it
The archive focuses on official plans adopted by city and municipal governments: climate action plans,
resilience strategies, heat and flood adaptation plans, and similar documents. We deliberately exclude
national adaptation plans and purely mitigation-focused documents to keep the scope tight and useful.
Plans are drawn from cities across every region of the world, with a particular emphasis on the
Global South, where planning capacity and document accessibility are often uneven.
How it works
Documents are discovered through automated web research, reviewed for relevance, and indexed so you
can search across their full text — not just titles. Search combines keyword matching with semantic
understanding, so a query like "managed retreat from coastal flooding" will surface relevant passages
even when the document uses different phrasing.
How to help
This archive is incomplete and imperfect. If you find a plan that shouldn't be here, a document
that's miscategorized, or metadata that's wrong — use the flag button on any plan card to let us
know. If you know of a city-level plan that's missing, we'd love to hear from you.
Part of AdaptBase
This archive is one piece of AdaptBase,
a broader knowledge base for climate adaptation research built by the
Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech.