Explore cooling solutions for your city

Select a city to quantify heat risks and map cooling opportunities.

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Data Solutions

for Heat Action

Enabling urban decision makers to assess heat resilience in their city and understand the potential cooling impacts of a range of solutions at both neighborhood and city scales.

What you can do with Cool Cities Lab:

Access data to inform
effective heat action plans

Identify and map priority
areas for heat adaptation planning

Explore citywide and
hyper-local heat conditions

Estimate cooling potential of
heat-resilient infrastructure 

testimonials

This is helping us work closer with the parks department and be more scientific about tree planting locations.

Climate Change Manager, South Africa

About us

As part of Data for Cool Cities initiative, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, with support from Google.org, partners with urban decision-makers to improve the uptake of heat-resilient infrastructure solutions.

Recognizing that cities and communities often lack data to plan, fund, deploy and track solutions to urban heat, we work to understand the data needs of key stakeholders, develop data to met their needs and assist with translating analysis into sustainable infrastructure choics.

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