The Climate Smart Map is the Caribbean's most comprehensive interactive platform for climate action data — built to empower everyone from philanthropists and investors to heads of government and entrepreneurs to make smarter, faster, more impactful decisions.

WHAT IT IS

Launched at COP28 in Dubai in December 2023, the Climate Smart Map brings together climate data from across 26 Caribbean nations into a single, user-friendly platform.

It is not a report. It is not a snapshot. It is a living tool — continuously updated, openly accessible, and designed to turn information into action.

For the first time, policymakers, investors, project developers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, philanthropists, and advocates across the region have a shared source of truth — one that shows not just where the challenges are, but where the opportunities are too.

The map is also open to contribution. Communities, organisations, and practitioners across the region can submit data directly — creating a crowdsourced layer that grows with the Caribbean's climate story. All submissions are verified before going live, ensuring the platform remains a trusted source for everyone who relies on it.

WHAT IT SHOWS

The map identifies five critical dimensions of climate readiness across the Caribbean:

1. Climate Risk & Vulnerability — where the exposure is greatest and what is at stake
2. Climate Adaptation Efforts — what is already being done and where momentum is building
3. Climate Readiness — which nations and sectors are positioned to move fastest
4. Climate Governance — how policy frameworks are evolving across the region
5. Location-Specific Parameters — granular, place-based data that makes planning actionable rather than theoretical

WHY IT MATTERS

The Caribbean accounts for less than 1% of global carbon emissions. Yet the cost of climate-related damage to the region represents close to 40% of total global losses — and for some countries, a single weather event has caused losses exceeding 225% of GDP.

That disparity — between contribution and consequence — is precisely why data matters so much here. The Caribbean does not have the luxury of imprecision. Every dollar of climate finance, every policy decision, every infrastructure investment needs to go exactly where it will have the greatest impact.

The Climate Smart Map makes that possible.

As CCSA CEO Racquel Moses put it at the map's launch: the map is "a guiding force, steering us towards strategic climate action — directing climate finance to areas where it yields maximum impact."

WHAT IT SUPPORTS

The Climate Smart Map is a central pillar of CCSA’s mission to establish the Caribbean as the world’s first Climate-Smart Zone. It connects climate-smart projects with the capital, partners, and data needed to move them from idea to implementation, helping unlock funding and financing across the region. It directly supports:

• Transitioning the region to 90% renewable energy by 2035
• Protecting 30% of Caribbean land and water by 2030
• Building 1.5% green jobs in a new climate-action economic sector across the region

WHO BUILT IT

The Climate Smart Map was developed in collaboration with Templeton World Charity Foundation, PwC Trinidad and Tobago, and Vizzuality — and launched on the world stage at the CARICOM Pavilion at COP28.

EXPLORE THE MAP

The Climate Smart Map is live, free, and open to anyone who wants to understand, add to it — and act on — the Caribbean's climate moment.