Climate adaptation at scale requires understanding vulnerability at the local level. National climate strategies are necessary but insufficient — the impacts of climate change are experienced differently in every district, depending on geography, demographics, infrastructure, and economic structure.
RSustain’s ResilientPulse platform maps 42 resilience indicators across India’s 594 districts, drawing on IPCC AR6 projections, census data, and infrastructure surveys. The result is a granular vulnerability map that identifies which communities are most at risk and which interventions are most likely to build resilience.
The indicators span five dimensions: climate exposure (temperature, rainfall, extreme events), sensitivity (agricultural dependence, poverty, health infrastructure), adaptive capacity (education, connectivity, institutional strength), infrastructure resilience (flood defences, water systems, energy access), and governance (disaster preparedness, planning capacity).
For state governments, development agencies, and corporate CSR programmes, ResilientPulse provides an evidence base for targeting investment. Instead of distributing resources evenly, decision-makers can focus on the districts where vulnerability is highest and where investment will have the greatest impact.
The platform is built on open data principles: transparent methodology, documented data sources, and accessible results. Because effective climate adaptation requires collective action, the tools that support it should be widely available.