Climate Tools
The following tools are freely available software based models, datasets, and platforms that support climate research, analysis, and decision-making. These tools allow users to simulate climate scenarios, assess risks and vulnerabilities, track emissions, model energy systems, and develop adaptation or mitigation strategies.
Open-source tools remove financial and institutional barriers, enabling researchers, students, practitioners and policy makers—especially in developing countries—to access high-quality data and models.
Open platforms encourage global collaboration and continuous improvement through shared development, feedback, and customization to local contexts.
Open code and methods ensure transparency, reproducibility, and peer review, which are critical for scientific integrity and building trust in climate findings.
They provide evidence-based insights to inform policies on adaptation, mitigation, land use, energy planning, and disaster risk reduction.
An open data platform that provides emissions scenarios, climate policies, and historical greenhouse gas data. It helps policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders analyze national and global progress on climate action, compare policy pathways, and explore low-carbon futures.
An interactive map showing areas threatened by sea level rise and coastal flooding. Combining the most advanced global model of coastal elevations with the latest projections for future flood levels.
Climate Watch is an open data platform that provides emissions scenarios, climate policies, and historical greenhouse gas data. It helps policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders analyze national and global progress on climate action, compare policy pathways, and explore low-carbon futures.
Gapminder identifies systematic misconceptions about important global trends and proportions and uses reliable data to develop easy to understand teaching materials to rid people of their misconceptions.
An independent scientific analysis produced by three research organizations, tracking climate action and global efforts towards the globally agreed aim of holding warming below 2°C.
A global report and tool exploring climate change impacts, with a particular focus on the world’s most vulnerable countries.
A database for global-to-local climate impacts, allowing users to explore data across scales and sectors, including terrestrial climate, marine climate, and urban heat stress.
An online platform designed to empower stakeholders with open climate data, visualizations, and resources to gather insights on national and global progress on climate change.
A tool that provides insights into climate change impacts and risks, supporting adaptation planning and policy development.
A platform that allows individuals to discover how many more climate extremes they will face across their lifetime relative to a world without climate change.
Climate TRACE is a non-profit coalition of organizations building a timely, open, and accessible inventory of exactly where greenhouse gas emissions are coming from.
Global Forest Watch offers the latest data, technology and tools that empower people everywhere to better protect forests.