Adaptbase
Organizing the world’s climate adaptation knowledge.

Climate adaptation is atrillion-dollar challenge.

Today the world spends $190 billion a year defending 1.2 billion people to developed-economy standards. Protecting everyone exposed to climate hazards would cost $540 billion.

McKinsey Global Institute, 2025 →

We’ve read 115 adaptation plans from 86 cities in full — cataloging 10,170 actions and 7,541 solutions.

How will you use this knowledge to make better decisions about adaptation investments and innovations?

For Infrastructure investors
Infrastructure investor asks
FROM THE ADAPTBASE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
Green infrastructure is called for in the plans of 52 cities — ahead of green roofs (37), rain gardens (27) and nature-based solutions (24).
By solution · cities whose plans call for it
  • Green infrastructure 52
  • Green roofs 37
  • Rain gardens 27
  • Nature-based solutions 24
260 plans prescribing 7,516 solutions across 96 cities · as of September 2026
For Businesses
Business asks
FROM THE ADAPTBASE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
Vancouver leads with 28 flood and coastal actions in its plans, ahead of Seattle (22) and Fort Lauderdale (19).
Top cities
  • Vancouver 28
  • Seattle 22
  • Fort Lauderdale 19
  • New York City 12
A facility-siting risk lens · 182 actions across 48 cities · as of September 2026
For Planners
Planner asks
FROM THE ADAPTBASE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
Tree canopy leads (117 actions), then building retrofits (95) and communication (94) — and 483 of the 663 are rated low effort.
By type of action
  • Tree canopy 117
  • Building retrofits 95
  • Communication 94
  • Planning 94
663 actions from 63 heat action plans across 42 cities · as of September 2026
For Advocates
Advocate asks
FROM THE ADAPTBASE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
The most-reported outcomes aren't risk metrics at all — they're public health (2,152) and social cohesion (1,286), ahead of ecological (709).
By benefit claimed
  • Public health 2,152
  • Social cohesion 1,286
  • Ecological 709
  • Service continuity 428
5,928 co-benefit claims from 1,027 actions · as of September 2026
Benchmark

Every city we’ve read, on the same yardstick.

FROM THE ADAPTBASE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH · HOW MUCH EACH CITY’S PLANS DO, BY HAZARD
City Extreme heatStorms & floodingSea level & coastsDrought & waterWildfire
Africa7 cities read
Nairobi
Cape Town
Lagos
Asia17 cities read
Surat
Tel Aviv-Yafo
Da Nang
Europe16 cities read
London
Paris
Belgrade
North America30 cities read
Vancouver
Seattle
Fort Lauderdale
Latin America13 cities read
Buenos Aires
Mexico City
Juarez
Oceania3 cities read
Sydney
Melbourne
Wellington
11+ actions & plans 6–10 3–5 1–2 none yet
Top 3 cities per region by total, of the 86 whose plans we’ve read · 429 actions and 111 plans in them address these hazards · as of September 2026
Outcomes

Plans promise. What actually got measured?

FROM THE ADAPTBASE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH · OUTCOMES AND HOW THEY ARE MEASURED
1,377outcomes recorded
344tied to a named indicator
469indicators, 294 with a unit
273with a measured value, 78 with a target
Outcomes by kind
  • Effectiveness measures260
  • Co-benefits claimed233
  • Failure modes15
How an outcome gets measured
  • temperature reduction 2°C — measured as “average temperature reduction” London · The London Climate Resilience Review 2024, p. 107
  • heat-related mortality more than 8,000 — measured as “heat-related premature deaths” Minneapolis · Minneapolis Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies 2013, p. 11
  • reduced building indoor temperatures 0.6°C to 1°C — measured as “building indoor temperature reduction” Sydney · Cooling Sydney Strategy: Planning for Sydney 2050, p. 25
  • 13 to 44 lives are lost annually due to excessive heat 13 to 44 lives — measured as “annual heat-related lives lost” Fort Lauderdale · Broward County Climate Change Action Plan 2020, p. 44
Plan documents only · 25% of the outcomes plans describe are tied to a named indicator; the rest are promises without a yardstick · as of September 2026
How it’s built

AdaptBase sources and organizes knowledge scattered across the web.

Our custom-engineered AI agents discover documents detailing adaptation plans, actions, implementation and outcomes.

CITY PLAN PDF · 2022 · PAGE 30
Miami-Dade County Extreme Heat Action Plan
ACTION 18: Pilot and scale cool pavements

Conduct pilots of different types of cool pavements in low-impact areas, such as walkways, bike paths, parking lots, and low-volume roads…

Cool pavement could either be permeable, allowing water and water vapor into the voids of the pavement that keep it cooler when moist, or it could be more reflective than standard pavement, reducing incoming solar radiation and cooling the air temperature.

We collect the facts that matter.

Using an ontology developed with adaptation and resilience experts, we extract structured evidence — so every document reporting on every city and company is read in a rigorous, standardized way. No chatbot guessing from a pile of PDFs.

PlanMiami-Dade County Extreme Heat Action Plan
ActionConduct pilots of different types of cool pavements
SolutionCool pavements
MechanismReducing incoming solar radiation
One shared vocabulary: 21 entity types, 60+ relationship types
Connecting the dots

Then we connect them.

One line in one city’s PDF becomes a fact you can count, compare and trace — against every other plan we’ve read.

prescribes works by implements SOLUTION Cool pavements PLAN Miami-Dade County Extreme Heat Action Plan MECHANISM Reducing incoming solar radiation ACTION Conduct pilots of different types of cool pavements
THE SENTENCE BEHIND THIS LINK · MIAMI-DADE, P. 30
“Cool pavement… could be more reflective than standard pavement, reducing incoming solar radiation and cooling the air temperature.”
The graph

Together, they form a knowledge graph.

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Deep research

This is only the start.
We deploy autonomous AI agents to expand, update and fill gaps in our knowledge.

EXPAND THE GRAPH
“Which startups are building technology-enabled solutions for extreme heat?” No city plan answers that, and we hold zero suppliers today — so the researcher leaves the library and works the open web.
→ new sources acquired
EXTRACT STRUCTURED DATA
“Build the financing timeline across every capital project we know of.” 93 projects, 163 financial instruments — the same graph, at far higher resolution.
→ queued
CONTINUOUSLY UPDATE AND REFINE
“Does anything that just landed change what we already hold?” Every document the researcher pulls is read against the whole graph, not only the task that fetched it. A Rotterdam report retrieved for a cooling-centre question revised a rooftop water-storage action we'd held as planned since 2021 — now 34 buildings delivered.
→ existing fact superseded
The foundation

Built to be built on.

WHAT COMES BACK
Facts, not paragraphs — each one still carrying the plan, the page and the sentence it came from. Your agent can show its work, and you can check it.
Any assistant · any workflow · over MCP
Research assistants
that cite real plans
City dashboards
that compare against peers
Funding tools
that show their sources
API  ·  MCP
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Every relationship traces back to a quote: 190,531 evidence records. As of September 2026.

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