Over the past three years, ComMutiny’s Changelooms - Youth Leaders in Climate Action programme has advanced beyond pilot interventions to cultivate a resilient network of close 84 Changeloomers with youth-led climate initiatives spanning 19 Indian states.
Since its inception in October 2022, the initiative has supported four cohorts of early-stage entrepreneurs doing climate action projects, incubating over forty local organisations committed to regeneration, rewilding, and sustainable practice. More than half of these efforts, 57% are led by young women, reflecting a purposeful shift in who leads climate response in local contexts.
In Odisha and Madhya Pradesh, Changeloomers are constructing food forests and nurseries designed to restore degraded landscapes and re-center biodiversity, while simultaneously offering viable livelihoods. Other efforts such as delocalisation of indigenous food crops and its impact on culture and tradition conservation of native wild crops was initiated by two Agripreneurs from Arunachal Pradesh. In forest-adjacent landscapes like the Kalimpong hills and tribal districts, Changeloomers have built community-led eco‑tourism and environmental learning centres that resist extractive narratives, instead foregrounding collective stewardship and intergenerational knowledge.
The work in these dense settings is shaped by an implicit understanding that climate solutions need not just environmental efficacy, but social resonance.The Changelooms programme is built on more than community‑oriented support. It nurtures narrative capacities, systems thinking, and organisational resilience. By foregrounding stories of community rooted leadership, it reimagines what climate action can be a project of relational transformation as much as ecological adaptation.