Building Climate Resilience,

Together

Our mission is to mobilise citizens, institutions, schools, communities and innovators to build climate resilience from the ground up.

We believe in the collective wisdom of our communities — and that empowering them is the long-term strategy to rely on for building climate resilience.

The people closest to the problem are closest to the solution. Our job isn't to direct — it's to convene, connect, and get out of the way.

Our Mission

Our Philosophy

Resilience isn't handed down.
It's built street by street.

Ahmedabad Climate Action Week (ACAW) provides a platform for citizens, schools, institutions, innovators and communities to come together in new ways — celebrating local leadership and collective wisdom to shape a climate-resilient future for Ahmedabad and cities like it.

Rather than a single centralised conference, ACAW runs on a decentralised model. Local actors host their own events, in their own neighbourhoods, across the city. We curate, connect and amplify; the city does the rest.

First Edition | 22–24 January 2027 | Citywide | Decentralised

About ACAW

Ahmedabad sits close to the Tropic of Cancer and has lived with heat for generations. Today it ranks among the world's most heat-stressed and least climate-resilient cities. But that is only half the story.

Ahmedabad is a city where community-led innovation and India' non violence movement has taken root — where neighbourhoods, institutions and everyday people have found their own ways to adapt, endure and organise. It is a city that has learned to outlive the heat. In 2013, it became the first city in India to design a dedicated Heat Action Plan — a model that has since shaped climate response across the country.

ACAW taps into this potential, spotlighting Ahmedabad not only as a city on the climate frontline, but as a source of practical, community-rooted resilience with lessons that travel. From schools and pols to enterprises, researchers, civic bodies and citizen groups, Ahmedabad's people are already shaping pathways toward a climate-resilient future. ACAW exists to connect them.