TOF ta wayar da kan shuwagabannin gwamnati game da barazanar da ake fuskanta a duniya sakamakon gurbataccen ruwa

WASHINGTON, DC, Janairu 8, 2020 - Don bikin ranar Ayyukan Acidification na Tekun Duniya na shekara ta biyu, The Ocean Foundation (TOF), tare da haɗin gwiwar Ofishin Jakadancin New Zealand, sun shirya taron wakilan gwamnati don zaburar da ayyuka da kuma taya ƙasashe da al'ummomin da suka yi alkawurra don magance ƙalubalen duniya na samar da acid ɗin teku. Ranar aiki ta faru a ranar 8 ga Janairu don wakiltar 8.1, matakin pH na yanzu na tekunmu.

A yayin taron, TOF ta saki Littafin Jagorar Acidification Tekun Ga Masu Manufa, cikakken rahoto game da dokokin samar da acid a cikin teku a matakan ƙasa da ƙasa, yanki, ƙasa, da ƙananan ƙasashe. A cewar jami’in tsare-tsare na TOF, Alexis Valauri-Orton, “manufar ita ce samar da samfuri da misalai da za su baiwa masu tsara manufofi damar canza ra’ayoyi zuwa aiki.” Kamar yadda Valauri-Orton ya lura, “daga zurfin zurfin duniyarmu mai shuɗi zuwa zurfin duniyarmu mai shuɗi, sinadarai na teku yana canzawa da sauri fiye da kowane lokaci a tarihin duniya. Kuma yayin da wannan canji a cikin ilmin sunadarai - wanda aka fi sani da ocean acidification (OA) - na iya zama marar ganuwa, tasirinsa ba haka yake ba." A gaskiya ma, teku a yanzu ya fi acidic 30% fiye da shekaru 200 da suka wuce, kuma yana da sauri fiye da kowane lokaci a tarihin duniya.¹

Bisa la'akari da cewa wannan matsala ta duniya tana buƙatar aiwatar da ayyukan duniya, TOF ta kaddamar da ranar aiki na OA na farko na kasa da kasa a gidan Sweden a watan Janairu na 2019. An gudanar da taron tare da hadin gwiwa da goyon baya daga gwamnatocin Sweden da Fiji, wanda jagorancin hadin gwiwa ya jagoranci. A kan kiyaye tekun ya hada da hada hannu da daukar nauyin shirin ci gaba mai dorewa (SDG) 14 taron teku a Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a shekarar 2017. Tun daga wannan ci gaba, taron na bana ya nuna wasu daga cikin manyan shugabannin duniya a kan gaba wajen yakar illar OA. . Mai masaukin baki na wannan shekara, New Zealand, tana aiki a matsayin shugabar ƙungiyar Commonwealth's Blue Charter Action Group on Ocean Acidification, kuma ta ba da gudummawa wajen haɓaka juriya ga OA a cikin tsibiran Pacific. Babban bako mai jawabi, Jatziri Pando, shi ne shugaban ma’aikatan kwamitin kula da muhalli, albarkatun kasa, da sauyin yanayi a majalisar dattawan Mexico. Kwamitin yana aiki tare da TOF don tsara tsarin manufofin kasa don karatu da amsawa ga OA a Mexico.

OA yana haifar da barazana a halin yanzu ga kasuwancin noman noman duniya (naman kifi, kifin kifi da sauran rayuwar ruwa don abinci), kuma, a cikin dogon lokaci, tushen dukkanin sassan abinci na ruwa ta hanyar mummunan tasirinsa akan harsashi- kafa kwayoyin halitta. Ana buƙatar matakan tsare-tsare na haɗin gwiwar da za su haɗa ilimin kimiyya da bunƙasa manufofi don tunkarar wannan ƙalubalen na duniya, kuma akwai buƙatu mai yawa na ayyukan da za su kiyaye walwala, kare dukiya, rage lalacewar ababen more rayuwa, kiyaye wuraren kiwon abincin teku, da fa'ida ga yanayin muhalli da tattalin arziki. . Bugu da kari, gina cibiyoyi da na kimiyya a tsakanin al'ummomi tare da mai da hankali kan rage hadarin wani muhimmin abu ne kuma muhimmin bangare na dabarun juriyar yanayin al'umma.

Ya zuwa yau, TOF ta horar da masana kimiyya sama da ɗari biyu da masu tsara manufofi kan dabarun sa ido da ragewa OA, ta shirya tarurrukan tarurrukan yanki kuma ta ba da tallafin horo kan ƙasa a duniya, a wurare kamar Mauritius, Mozambique, Fiji, Hawaii. Colombia, Panama da Mexico. Bugu da kari, TOF ta samar da cibiyoyi da kungiyoyi goma sha bakwai da kayan aikin sa ido kan acidification na teku a duk duniya. Kuna iya karanta ƙarin game da TOF's International Ocean Acidification Initiative nan.

Abokan sa ido kan Acidification na TOF

• Jami'ar Mauritius
• Cibiyar Mauritius Oceanographic
• Cibiyar Nazarin Ruwan Ruwa ta Afirka ta Kudu
• Jami'ar Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique)
• Palau International Coral Reef Center
• Jami'ar Kasa ta Samoa
• Hukumar Kifi ta Kasa, Papua New Guinea
• Ma'aikatar Muhalli ta Tuvalu
• Tokelau Ma'aikatar Muhalli
• CONICET CENPAT (Argentina)
• Universidad del Mar (Mexico)
• Jami'ar Pontifica Javeriana (Colombia)
• INVEMAR (Colombia)
• Jami'ar Yammacin Indiya
• ESPOL (Ecuador)
• Smithsonian Institute of Tropical Research Cibiyar

¹Feely, Richard A., Scott C. Doney, da Sarah R. Cooley. "Ocean acidification: halin yanzu da canje-canje na gaba a cikin babban CO₂ duniya." Oceanography 22, a'a. 4 (2009): 36-47.

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Jason Donofrio
Jami'in Hulda da Waje, The Ocean Foundation
(202) 318-3178
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Don neman kwafin The Ocean Foundation's Ocean Acidification Legislative Guidebook

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Mataimakin Bincike, The Ocean Foundation
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