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Describe your product and your key goals
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<img src="/icons/apple_blue.svg" alt="/icons/apple_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Describe your product
Product Description
Seagrass meadows are crucial marine ecosystems that provide numerous environmental benefits, including carbon sequestration, habitat provision, and coastal protection. Despite their importance, seagrass habitats are rapidly declining due to human activities such as coastal development, pollution, and climate change. This degradation not only threatens biodiversity but also undermines the potential of seagrass meadows as effective tools for climate change mitigation. Our innovation project seeks to address the decline of seagrass habitats by implementing innovative restoration and sustainable plantation techniques, thereby enhancing their role in carbon sequestration and ecosystem health.
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<img src="/icons/bullseye_green.svg" alt="/icons/bullseye_green.svg" width="40px" /> What you want to achieve by March 2025
- After 6 months: One hectare of 20,000 seagrass shoots planted with the results of sequestered carbon of 22000 gC/year which is equivalent to 0.081 tons of COâ‚‚e/year. Initial results will demonstrate positive signs of seagrass establishment, sediment stabilization, and habitat improvement. Community members will begin to see tangible benefits from their participation, such as an improved understanding of the ecological importance of seagrass meadows and the potential for sustainable livelihoods. Coastal community representatives are educated and trained for seagrass plantations. The locals benefited from cash for work from the project and community representatives were aware of their roles in partnership with ECCDI for similar plantation projects in the future. Awareness reaches potential clients, regulators, and administrators through the ECCDI team.
- In 2 years: Seagrass meadows will have expanded across larger areas, with measurable improvements in ecosystem health, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration. Restored seagrass habitats will support healthier fish populations, benefiting local fisheries and providing a sustainable source of income for coastal communities. Regulators and authoritative administrators encourage seagrass plantations as an offsetting mitigation tool for industries and entities affecting climate change and promoting coastal area conservation.
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Describe what you need the most
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<img src="/icons/bell-notification_pink.svg" alt="/icons/bell-notification_pink.svg" width="40px" /> Describe the kinds of help you need the most (funding, expertise, technology, access, etc.).
- Funding with smooth transactions from the local UNDP branch
- Regulations need to encourage recognition of the seagrass plantation as an option for CSR program and compensation for mitigations.
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Describe your customers and the problem you are solving
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<img src="/icons/brain_blue.svg" alt="/icons/brain_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Describe your target customers
- Our product will attract investors for its CSR programs and pollution/impact mitigation options. Investors such as offshore oil companies and heavy industries will be our potential customers.
- International donors for climate change activities and improvement of coastal community livelihood would get attention on this initiative for Myanmar with a blue economy.
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<img src="/icons/emoji-disappointed_pink.svg" alt="/icons/emoji-disappointed_pink.svg" width="40px" /> What pain points are you trying to solve?
- Approach to regional, township, and village administrative personnel, community representatives and other conservation groups. Need to approach for acquisition of the plantation area and get in touch with the coastal community.
- Unstable political situation in other parts of the country though our project location is stable.
- Unable to use a drone for aerial images for verification due to restrictions for security reasons by the government in the current situation.
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