How can insurance protect women working in India from heat waves? How can a video game make someone more prepared to deal with climate impacts? Our solution pages break it down. Discover how our team is working with partners across the world to improve lives, protect livelihoods, and expand opportunity for communities on the front lines of the climate crisis.
Adaptation policy and finance solutions
Extreme heat resilience solutions
Climate gaming and technology solutions
Past projects
At the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center, we design solutions that can be scaled and replicated by partners around the world. That’s why we work with local organizations to design, implement, and scale each and every solution. We have successfully transitioned several solutions to local partners, offering advisory support while the partners agilely and effectively build impact.
Urban farming initiative
Local partner: Chennai Resilience Center
The initiative provides low-cost mobile vegetable garden kits that can be planted on rooftops or vacant urban spaces. It was transferred to our local partners in 2024, ensuring the work can respond to local needs and build on the innovative and impactful pilot.
Naming heat waves in Seville
Local partner: The city of Seville and Universidad de Sevilla
The proMETEO Seville pilot project launched in June 2022. The project has two core objectives: to raise public awareness of the dangers of heat and reduce heat risk. In a peer-reviewed assessment, people who remembered the heat wave’s name were more likely to take safety precautions, showing the positive impact of this initiative.
Freetown’s market shade project
Local partners: Chief Heat Officer Kargbo and Freetown City Council
Working with local vendors, the Climate Resilience Center built shade covers in three outdoor markets across Freetown, Sierra Leone. The new shades protect market women from working in the exposed sun and extend their safe working hours with newly installed solar-powered lights.
The climate games accelerator
Partner: Unity
The Climate Resilience Center and Unity Technologies launched an innovative accelerator program to build climate resilience through gameplay. Over the six-week program, the Climate Games Launchpad offered funding, mentorship, and expert support to developers from six teams selected for their commitment to driving climate action through their game design and story.
Miami-Dade County’s resilience pod
Local partner: Ripples of Impact
The Community Resilience Pod was designed from an old shipping container. It is now a colorful, mobile space that empowers people and communities to prepare for and confront climate shocks and stressors. Since September 2024, it has been managed locally by the nonprofit Ripples of Impact.