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The project built up public awareness of the risks of high temperatures and set up "cooling spaces" in temples, public buildings and malls in the summer months.<ref name=nita />
The plan also involved community outreach initiatives, putting an early warning system in place that provides a seven-day advance forecast about high temperatures and impending heat waves, and capacity-building of health-case professionals to treat people with heat-related complications.<ref name=langa >[http://www.pressreader.com/india/the-hindu/20170402/283072709125329 How Ahmedabad beat the heat], Mahesh Langa, The Hindu, access date 2 May 2017</ref> According to ''[[The Hindu]]'', the city's Heat Action Plan, unveiled in 2013, has brought down heatwave-linked deaths by up to 25%.<ref name=langa />
Women and young people at the forefront of climate adaptation action. The Ahmedabad heat wave project shows that women hawkers and street vendors are natural and easy brokers of learning around how to deal with heat wave. They pick up measures to respond as well as pass on the message to other women and children in the city.<ref>[http://reliefweb.int/report/india/feature-severe-heat-wave-grips-india-authorities-can-draw-insights-ahmedabad-experience Severe heat wave grips India – Authorities can draw on insights from Ahmedabad experience, ReliefWeb, access date 2 May 2017]</ref>
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=== Pakistan's renewable energy potential ===
Another CDKN project found that the use of photovoltaic panels in an industrial sector in Sialkot, Pakistan, could mitigate up to 377,000 tons of carbon dioxide and gain average savings of US$27,400 per year on electricity costs. The project, conducted alongside Ecofys, assessed a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) as a policy tool to provide renewable energy to the city's industry.<ref>
== Latin America and the Caribbean ==
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=== Cities Footprint Project ===
In Latin America and the Caribbean, CDKN is working alongside municipal governments to orientate the growth of their cities towards low carbon and climate resilient development through the Cities Footprint Project. In its first phase, Cities Footprints has been implemented in three cities: La Paz in Bolivia, Quito in Ecuador and Lima in Perú.
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The project focuses on assessing the carbon and water footprints of each municipal government and of each participating city, and on promoting [greenhouse gas emissions] reductions and water management measures that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation respectively.<ref>
=== Resilient Cities Initiative on Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean ===
A joint initiative between the [[International Development Research Centre]] (IDRC) and CDKN, the Resilient Cities Initiative, helps strengthen decision-making and scale-up effective action on climate resilient development to improve the livelihoods of those most affected by climate change in Latin America.<ref name=idrc>
According to IDRC, the projects are:
* "Home" as a catalyst for resilience: relocation in the Amazon Rainforest. This project investigates how new settlements can be designed to be resilient to climate change, create social cohesion, and promote alternative livelihood opportunities, with a focus on Nuevo Belen in Iquitos, Peru.
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== Negotiations Support ==
CDKN's Negotiations Support programme provides legal and technical support to negotiators from the most climate vulnerable countries. These countries have the most to lose from climate change but are often unable to fully represent their interests in international climate negotiations.<ref>
The Negotiations Support programme won the International category at the Management Consulting Association Awards for the negotiation support work around the Paris Climate Agreement.<ref>
== Legal Response Initiative (LRI) ==
CDKN funds and supports the Legal Response Initiative (LRI), which seeks to create a more level playing field between actors in the climate change negotiations.<ref name=lri>
▲CDKN funds and supports the Legal Response Initiative (LRI), which seeks to create a more level playing field between actors in the climate change negotiations.<ref name=lri>[http://legalresponseinitiative.org/about-us/supporters/ Legal Response Initiative, Supporting us, access date 4 May 2017]</ref>
The Legal Response Initiative provides free legal support to poor and particularly climate vulnerable developing countries, and civil society observer organisations, at international negotiations under the [[United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change]] (UNFCCC). It operates through a network of lawyers from law firms, barrister chambers and universities in different jurisdictions who give hands-on assistance during meetings, draft legal opinions or build the capacity of lawyers and negotiators from developing countries.<ref name=lri2>{{cite web|url=https://legalresponse.org/|title=LRI|first=|last=LRI|date=|website=legalresponse.org|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref>
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