Enhancing Climate Resilience of India’s Coastal Communities (ECRICC)
Enhanced resilience of coastal and marine ecosystems and their services.
Mangroves exist throughout the tropical and subtropical latitudes over the globe but, the majority of these are found in Southeast Asia.
Mangrove carbon is primarily stored in the soil, unlike other tropical forest that stores the carbon in the biomass.
Coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, tidal marshes, and seagrass meadows sequester and store more carbon per unit area than terrestrial forests.
Mangroves make up only 3% of Earth’s forest cover, but if they were all cut down, they could contribute up to 10% of global carbon emissions.
Nearly 35% of mangroves lost from around the world, since the 1980s.
Mangroves are vital to Earth’s carbon cycle - the exchange of carbon between the land, ocean, atmosphere and living things.
3.3% of the world’s mangrove vegetation is in India.
In India, net increase in mangrove forest cover was observed from 4046 km² to 4639 km² between 1987 - 2007.
Odisha has gained significantly in Mangrove cover in Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur and Balasore districts, as per the 2021 Assessment.
Mangroves represent only 1% (100000 km²) of the area of tropical forests.
In Odisha, mangroves are spread over an area of 259 sq. Km.
World over, 113 countries have Mangrove forest covering an estimated 14.70 million hectares.
The largest Mangrove area is reported in Asia, followed by Africa, North and Central Americal and South America
More that 40 per cent of the total area of Mangroves are reported in just four countries : Indonesia (19%), Brazil (9%), Nigeria (7%) and Mexico (6%).
Mangroves are repositores of rich biodiversity and thus its conservation is important.
As per a assessment in 2021, Mangrove cover in India is 4,992 sq km, which is 0.15% of the country's total geographical area.
About the project:
Enhancing Climate Resilience of India’s Coastal Communities (ECRICC)’ is a six-year project, that aims to develop the resilience of the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations particularly women, in the coastal areas of India to climate change and extreme events, using an ecosystem-centred and community-based approach.
Outputs Envisaged:
This project plans three outputs and follows a multisectoral approach integrating EbA into coastal management and planning.
- Enhanced resilience of coastal and marine ecosystems and their services.
- Climate adaptive livelihoods for enhanced resilience of vulnerable coastal communities
- Strengthened governance and institutional framework for climate-resilient management of coastal areas…
Mangrove " Restoration & Plantation"
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Seagrass " Restoration & Protection"
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Saltmarsh Restoration
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Watershed Activities
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Shri Ganesh Ram Singhkhuntia
Hon'ble Minister Forest, Environment & Climate Change Dept., Govt. of Odisha
Mr. Satyabrata Sahu, IAS
Additional Chief Secretary,
FE & CC Dept., Govt. of Odisha
Shri Prem Kumar Jha, IFS
Director, Env. cum-Spl. Secy.,
Forest ,Environment & CC Dept., Govt. of Odisha
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Contact
- State Project Management Unit
- GoI - GCF - UNDP Project
- “Enhancing Climate Resilience of India’s Coastal Communities”
- Administrative Building, 1st Floor, RPRC Campus, Bubaneswar-15
- Ph: 0674-2962313