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The Heat Plan That Became the Template

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A 2010 heatwave killed more than a thousand people in Ahmedabad in a week. The plan the city wrote afterwards now saves roughly that many lives every year.

1,100deaths/yearDeaths avoided each year after the plan began
2,013yearYear South Asia's first heat action plan launched
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