In Latin America, the conversation about climate risk is making steady progress. In this context, Argentina published the Climate Change Risk Mapping System (SIMARCC), a public viewer that gathers climate and socioeconomic information to support planning and decision-making. We reviewed the system's main features and share a brief summary below.
What SIMARCC offers
- A geographic viewer with climatic layers and vulnerability variables for provinces and departments.
- Supporting documentation to familiarize yourself with scope and definitions.
- An explicit focus on scenarios (compare possible trajectories) rather than deterministic predictions.
How to get started in 30 minutes
- Define the area of interest. Select province/municipality or project area in the viewer.
- Choose the priority variable. For example: temperature, precipitation or derived indicators, depending on the sector.
- Compare horizons and scenarios. Observe ranges of change and spatial patterns, not a single number.
- Crossing with vulnerability. Incorporate socioeconomic layers to measure exposure and response capacity.
- Note assumptions and limits. Record methodology and usage restrictions before reporting results.
Who is it useful for?
- Local and provincial governments: Prioritization of drainage, tree planting, health and risk management works, with territorial reading.
- Companies with distributed assets: location and resilience criteria for new facilities, logistics and infrastructure.
- Organizations and academia: common basis for diagnoses, adaptation plans and environmental education.
Good practices when integrating it into plans
- Working with scenarios. Use the viewer to compare options and sensitivities (short vs. long term), not to assign probabilities.
- Supplement with local data. Historical series, inventories of critical assets and specific studies strengthen the interpretation.
- Draw up monitoring indicators. Linking each adaptation measure to an operational indicator facilitates monitoring and continuous improvement.
From DelPlata Green
We accompany public and private teams to go from map to plan: guided reading of the territory, prioritization of material risks and adaptation roadmaps with simple and actionable indicators.Are you interested in applying SIMARCC to your project or jurisdiction? Let's talk to advance an initial assessment.