Climate change is one of the biggest challenges the world has ever faced. Flooding, storm surge, and sea level rise are serious threats to natural resources, infrastructure, and human communities in coastal areas. In effort to adapt to these changing conditions, planners and policymakers should consider nature’s strategies when developing coastal resiliency plans to protect communities from increasing coastal erosion and flooding due to rising sea levels. Almost 100% of the observed temperature increase over the last 50 years has been due to the increase in the atmosphere of greenhouse gas concentrations like water vapour, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and ozone. Greenhouse gases are those gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect (see below). The largest contributing source of greenhouse gas is the burning of fossil fuels leading to the emission of carbon dioxide. When sunlight reaches Earth's surface some is absorbed and warms the earth and most of the rest is radiated back to the atmosphere at a longer wavelength than the sun light. Some of these longer wavelengths are absorbed by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere before they are lost to space. The absorption of this longwave radiant energy warms the atmosphere. These greenhouse gases act like a mirror and reflect back to the Earth some of the heat energy which would otherwise be lost to space. The reflecting back of heat energy by the atmosphere is called the "greenhouse effect". Based upon the above issues in mind DRC thought it appropriate to organise a District level Workshop at Puri. About 85 nos. participants from different fields were present in the said workshop. Experts on Environment were RPs, elaborate brainstorming was realised in the event. It was decided to organise mass plantation drive in coastal pockets, Schools should be involved in awareness programmes and civil societies are to conduct Block level and GP level workshops involving PRI Members foe converging existing Govt. programmes arresting issues on Climate Change and Global warming. Adequate media coverage was done. The outputs of the Workshop was recommended to Govt.
PLANTATION & NURSERY RAISING:The present World is being threatened by Global Warming & Climate Change.The Land,Water and Air is being poised.The land goes barren with the untamed building structure and the wipe out of the forests which ride our civilization towards a dead end of the modernization. We need profuse plantation and green revolution for enrichment of the eco-system. We have been connecting our desire of the eco-conservation for the bestowment of our future generation avoiding the eve teasing to the trees and forests and emergence of the forest lands to balance our water cycle. As a small initiative DRC had organised a Mass Plantation Drive in 2 villages where, eucalyptus, Neem, Aswattha, Akasia and other species like mangoes, bara, chakunda and cashew nutetc were planted.Similarly a Nursery Bed was developed to organise regular Plantation Drive in the area, Apart from safeguarding the current forest wealth, we are also trying to regenerate new forest by undertaking plantation. The community leaders, PRI members, stakeholders and intellectuals were involved to support the programme to make success.
SEMINAR ON COASTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROG:Coastal Odisha has a very fragile eco-system which is under constant threat. The instant sore erosion is being noticed. Life and Livelihood Sources of Coastal people is disturbed. Unless something is done on a war footing, there is real danger to the ecology and its rich bio-diversity. The organization is working to create among the people to conserve the rich bio-diversity in the region. During the occasion a seminar was conducted at Puri in which social activists and environmentalists from all over the coastal region participated and voiced their opinion regarding the importance of ecological conservation.