Climate Solutions International (CSI) software, backed by specially curated and localized datasets, makes it easy for government personnel to visualize and modify the performance of proposed projects and programs within the fast-paced process of capital planning and budgeting. The parameters generated by CSI software align with global measures of climate finance, social equity, and local adaptive capacity in project planning, credit reporting, and climate finance.
Government personnel can view and discuss the indicators of performance for proposed projects, and modify their selection of technologies and locations to improve performance, before committing to funding them in the course of the typical budget cycle. Indicators of interest include lifecycle cost, net zero emissions, the vulnerability of assets and communities to climate impacts, and the loss and damage avoided due to selected modifications.
CSI’s platform asks government agencies to provide basic inputs common to project programming and budgeting, such as estimates of cost, purpose of project, size or scale of project, and proposed project sites. The software then generates forecasts of cost and performance, showing how simple choices available to local personnel will change the cost of projects, sectoral programs (e.g., buildings, energy, transportation, water, wastewater), and the entire proposed capital plan, providing empirical forecasts of decarbonization, resiliency, social justice, and capital prioritization.
This detailed quantitative information about project performance is pulled forward into a system that allows local governments to compare the performance of projects against one another, and prioritize the use of scarce resources in ways that serve their local interests.
To manage climate change and maximize their opportunity to benefit their communities, local governments need a wide array of tools and data. CSI’s platform is uniquely designed to serve the complex needs of local governments in capital investment or improvement planning. To discover how CSI tools can work for your organization, follow the yes or no pathways in this diagram.
CSI software stands alone in a rapidly growing market for government services. Only CSI’s platform has been field tested worldwide for more than a decade. The purpose of this software is to provide local personnel with the tools they need to transform their capital pipeline, meet and exceed the challenge of climate change, and gain the capacity to meet global standards for city climate bond certification at a fraction of the cost of consultancies.
