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The CTCN brings together stakeholders who want to leverage ecosystem services from lakes, rivers, oceans and coastal zones to capture carbon emissions, also commonly referred to as Blue Carbon. A key approach is to adapt coastal zones to climatic changes through technologies such as wetland restoration, beach nourishment and a combination of other well-established and innovative technologies. Browse through our Coastal Zone pages to see how you can connect with our growing network of organisations and businesses. Below you will find related publications, partners, CTCN technical assistance, technologies and other information for exploring this topic further.  

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Coastal zones

  • Technology

    DEME is a world leader in the highly specialized fields of dredging, marine engineering and environmental remediation. The Group can build on more than 140 years of know-how.

  • Technology

    Coastal zones contain some of world's most intensively used environments.  Increasing demand for coastal resources has led, in some cases, to degradation through loss of habitat and fisheries resources, reduced water quality and quantity, accelerated erosion and accumulation of pollution.  This degradation has serious social and economic consequences for coastal communities.

  • For over 40 years, Hatfield Group has carried out fisheries management projects for both public and private clients across Canada and around the world. They regularly manage monitoring programs that assess the effects of development on fish populations and the suitability of fish for consumption by humans and wildlife. Whether establishing compensation habitat or studying the aquatic environment for signs of contamination, they have decades of experience that allow them to identify the best strategies for your project’s particular environmental needs.

  • AquAgri Processing is engaged in promoting sea plant or algal cultivation through self help groups in India. Seaweed cultivation introduction in Indian coastal waters to provide livelihood opportunity to coastal communities is a major development. The model using self-help groups mainly comprising of women is an innovative model not practiced anywhere else globally. Offering a fixed pre-determined price to provide a predictable income has also been put into practice for the first time.

  • Holland Floating Solutions (HFS) is enabling multiple floating solutions. HFS designs and realizes floating foundations used for building on water in a wide variarity of applications for living, working and recreating. The floating solutions are based on the buoyancy of several hybrid foundations, such as concrete hulls, Holcon system, FlexBase system, Foamconcrete and composites.

    Source: https://hollandfloatingsolutions.nl/en/

  • Technology

    Geo-Synthetics, LLC is a distributor, fabricator, and installer of geosynthetic materials for a broad range of erosion control and containment applications for landfill sites, construction sites, road construction projects and contaminated waterways. For over 40 years, Geo-Synthetics has been  providing geosynthetic materials, project field support, and installation expertise. GSI is one of the country’s largest independent installers of liners for landfill sites, and manages installation projects in all parts of the country.

  • AquaSol's team of fish farming and shrimp farming experts has the ability to efficiently identify problems and deliver solutions that match with existing operations and the overall strategic objectives of the client's company.  They have recently increased the sophistication of these efforts and now use advanced methods like data analytics and business intelligence to support tried and true methods like biomodelling to increase aquaculture production and improve the overall efficiency of aquaculture operations.

  • Mukesh & Associates, an ISO 9001:2008 certified multidisciplinary consultancy firm is based in Salem (Tamil Nadu), India with a spread of branch offices at Chennai, Delhi, Bangalore and project offices at Mumbai, Ratnagiri, Bhopal, Kanpur, Gwalior, Bareilly and Trivandrum.  The firm is offering consultancy services in Architecture, Planning, Civil, Infrastructure, Environmental Engineering, Project Management, Quality Auditing, Independent Review Monitoring & Evaluation, etc. Established in 1986, the firm has over three hundred twenty five employees comprisi

  • Technology

    Hall Contracting is Australia’s largest privately-owned dredging, civil and marine construction company with offices in South East Asia, the Pacific Islands and Australia.

  • Kessels Ecology is a competent team of ecologists. They work extensively with ecosystem restoration plans, which can include indigenous plantings, restoration of waterways, habitat design and pest control plans. Alongside detailed restoration plans, they also offer ongoing monitoring programmes, which they design and conduct to ensure the success of restoration towards long-term conservation of indigenous ecosystems. Restoration and conservation projects are at the heart of the company.