CLIMATE CANVAS
For donors, development banks, climate funds, their lending partners, and beneficiaries
An AI-assisted, one-page climate change adaptation and mitigation plan that builds the pipeline your program needs to grow — and gives every business you fund a clear blueprint to become more climate-resilient.
Climate Threats
Supply Chain Risks
Market Risks
Operational Risks
Commitments
Key Metrics
Mitigation & Adaptation
Financial Outlays
Financial Benefits
Climate Canvas is built for the organizations that finance SMEs — donors, development banks, climate funds, and their lending partners — and for the businesses they fund. It adds what climate finance looks for — a clear view of adaptation and mitigation — to the business plans your applicants already prepare. And it puts everyone on the same page: applicants draft their own canvas, your technical assistance providers strengthen it with them, and your program gets a standardized climate rationale at scale.
Give every loan its climate story
Partner banks already require a business plan for every loan, and those plans establish creditworthiness well. What they leave out is climate — the adaptation and mitigation story that climate finance needs to see. Climate Canvas fills that gap, giving every applicant a clear, standardized climate rationale alongside the plan they already prepare. It complements the credit assessment, at the scale your program needs.
Build a pipeline funders can trust
Climate Canvas gives every applicant a structured climate profile — the risks they face, the adaptation and mitigation measures that respond, and the metrics to track progress. For your program, that means a clear eligibility read on each subproject, an auditable climate rationale, and a consistent, reportable pipeline. It works alongside your partner banks' existing process, never in place of it.
Harness AI to jump-start every plan
A business owner answers a short set of questions, and an AI helper drafts a strong first version of their one-page plan — no climate expertise required. The AI never invents financial figures: businesses enter their own numbers, and the lender verifies and prices them.
Collaborate remotely for unlimited outreach
Because Climate Canvas runs in the cloud, technical assistance providers can support businesses wherever they are — reviewing a canvas as it takes shape, answering questions, and strengthening the result in real time. Expert help no longer depends on being in the same room, which makes remote technical assistance a practical tool for outreach, inclusion, and scale.
Trust a proven, rigorous framework
Inspired by the Business Model Canvas, Climate Canvas distills adaptation and mitigation into nine building blocks. The structure is simple enough for any business to complete, yet rigorous enough to align with national climate priorities and the standards climate funds look for.
Whether you run an adaptation facility, a green credit line, or an SME lending program, Climate Canvas gives your pipeline what it needs — standardized, auditable, and ready for climate finance.