CLIMATElens

Understand

Explore how your community’s climate may change.

CLIMATElens is a free, interactive tool that makes local climate projections easier to explore and understand. Using authoritative NOAA climate data and downscaled projections, it helps communities understand potential changes in temperature, extreme heat, precipitation, frost-free seasons, and heating and cooling demand. Explore projected conditions through mid- and end-century across multiple climate scenarios, and discover how these changes may affect the places you call home. CLIMATElens helps planners, community leaders, and residents connect climate science with local planning, resilience, and informed decision-making.

CLIMATEcost

Understand

Understand the potential economic costs of climate change in your community.

CLIMATEcost helps communities explore the economic dimensions of a changing climate. This interactive calculator combines published climate research, federal economic data, and community greenhouse gas emissions information to estimate potential local economic damages and the global social cost of community emissions. It also provides an illustrative localized cost-of-carbon indicator to help put these impacts into perspective. Designed for community leaders, planners, and residents, CLIMATEcost helps connect climate risks with economic considerations and supports informed conversations about local priorities and climate action.

ACTIONresource

Discover & Plan

Find real-world ideas and resources to turn plans into action.

Good ideas grow when communities learn from one another. ACTIONresource is a searchable library of more than 1,700 real-world climate and sustainability examples, policies, programs, ordinances, and implementation resources from across the United States. Explore what other communities are doing, compare different approaches, and discover practical resources to support your own initiatives. With searches organized by sector, topic, resource type, and geography, ACTIONresource helps local governments, planners, and community organizations move from promising ideas toward meaningful local action.

ACTIONtracker

Track & Share

Turn your community’s plans into visible, measurable progress.

Great plans deserve great follow-through. ACTIONtracker helps local governments track and share progress on climate, sustainability, and other community goals through an interactive public dashboard. By bringing together greenhouse gas emissions trends, performance measures, implementation milestones, and annual updates, ACTIONtracker transforms complex information into a clear picture of community progress. Designed with small municipal teams in mind, it makes reporting easier, strengthens transparency, and helps residents see how local commitments are becoming meaningful action.