ECOBARI – UPSCALING ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION THROUGH COLLECTIVE ACTION
On 19th November 2021, WOTR with IDH and eight other partners launched ECOBARI – a collaborative aimed to promote Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Resilient Incomes. The event witnessed over 150 participants. ECOBARI received huge support from the development fraternity; it is seen as a major step in fostering climate change adaptation and supporting the incomes of marginalized communities in rural India. We, at WOTR, are immensely proud of this development. COP26 highlighted the increasing global concern over the adverse impact of climate change on our ecosystems that has especially disrupted the lives of the underprivileged. Frequent floods, forest fires, spells of drought and such natural calamities are fast becoming the new normal. While this is deteriorating the overall quality of life for everyone, climate change is majorly wreaking havoc on the livelihoods of rural and tribal communities where agriculture and forest produce are their lifeline. But that’s not where it ends. The ripple effect is on the entire nation, as seen in the rising hunger and malnutrition, inflation, widening socio-economic gap and declining human development index.