Tools | U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Tools are available to help you manage your climate-related risks and opportunities, and to help guide you in building resilience to extreme events. Browse the list below, or filter by topic and/or tool functionality in the boxes above. To expand your results, click the Clear Filters link.

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Bringing Wetlands to Market: BWM Wetland GHG Model

Coastal managers can use this Excel® spreadsheet file to estimate the potential carbon storage of a wetland region.

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Caribbean Marine Maps

Interactive maps including satellite imagery, airborne imagery, and data from drones and divers are available to help advance ocean conservation and climate adaptation.

Coastal Blue Carbon in Practice

This Manual for Using the VCS Methodology for Tidal Wetlands and Seagrass Restoration documents how wetlands restoration efforts can generate carbon offsets.

Coastal Restoration Toolkit

This web-based toolkit offers a wealth of tools and resources to help coastal residents address flooding, coastal erosion, water quality, invasive species, and wildlife habitat restoration.

Community Resource Guide for Planning Living Shorelines Projects

This guidebook provides community leaders, citizens, and contractors with guidance on key elements that should be considered when embarking on living shoreline projects.

Gulf TREE (Tools for Resilience Exploration Engine)

This site walks Gulf Coast users through a decision-support tree framework to match them with relevant climate resilience tools.

Massachusetts Wildlife Climate Action Tool

Users in Massachusetts can access this tool to better understand the vulnerability of fish, wildlife, and natural resources to climate change, learn how to implement adaptation actions on the ground, and explore climate data and projections.

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Ports Resilience Index

Port management organizations can use this self-assessment to determine if they are prepared to maintain operations during and after disasters.

Southeast Conservation Blueprint

This living spatial plan identifies important places for conservation and restoration across the Southeast and Caribbean. The plan is helping organizations bring in new funding and inform their conservation decisions.

Synthesis of Adaptation Options for Coastal Areas

Coastal managers can consult this guide to help them understand adaptation options that are relevant to estuarine management goals.