UN-endorsed CityU project on monitoring global estuaries
The State Key Laboratory of Marine Air pollution (SKLMP) at Metropolis College of Hong Kong (CityU) has been endorsed by the United Nations (UN) to provoke a ten-year “World Estuaries Monitoring (GEM)” Programme to gather and research environmental pollution within the estuaries of main cities across the globe in order to formulate a long-term coverage of selling clear estuaries.
It’s the solely proposal from Hong Kong endorsed by the UN on this first spherical of utility.
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Fee of UNESCO introduced on “World Oceans Day” on 8 June 2021 that after rigorously reviewing 250 proposals submitted by greater than 50 nations or areas around the globe, solely 66 proposals had been chosen as “Ocean Decade Actions” beneath the “UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Growth (2021-2030)”. The undertaking initiated by CityU is the one endorsed proposal from Hong Kong and one among two endorsed “Ocean Decade Actions” from China.
Professor Kenneth Leung Mei-yee, Director of SKLMP and Chair Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry within the Division of Chemistry at CityU stated, “Because the inhabitants grows in coastal areas, world estuaries are going through unprecedented challenges related to water air pollution. CityU will set up a worldwide monitoring community with companions from everywhere in the world to gather samples and conduct experiments to determine air pollution hotspots and precedence contaminants as a way to suggest and promote one of the best methods to create cleaner estuaries.”
The collaborative companions of the GEM Programme embrace Professor Alistair Boxall from the College of York, UK, Professor Martina Doblin from the Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS), Australia, Professor Bryan Brooks from Baylor College, US, and Dr Yuan Shen from the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science (MEL) in Xiamen College, China.
At current, over 100,000 chemical substances are being utilized in our every day life and industries, and plenty of of them will ultimately be launched into the estuaries by totally different pathways. Nonetheless, there’s a lack of know-how out there across the globe in regards to the prevalence and environmental dangers of chemical contaminants in urbanised estuaries, particularly these in Africa, South America, and in some coastal areas in Southeast Asia and Oceania.
The GEM Programme led by Professor Leung will develop standardised strategies to ascertain a worldwide monitoring community to gather seawater samples from urbanised estuaries worldwide, extract and quantify precedence chemical contaminants, analyse and evaluate the variations of water high quality amongst totally different estuaries and supply coaching alternatives to construct capability for air pollution monitoring.
The primary part of the research can be launched in Could 2022 in main urbanised estuaries within the southern hemisphere, and prolonged to the northern hemisphere in November of the identical yr. It’s anticipated that about 100 nations or areas will take part. The analysis staff expects to publish the report after the completion of the primary part in 2023, revealing the air pollution standing of worldwide estuaries, thus figuring out the involved estuaries and methods for enhancements at an earlier stage.
CityU has allotted HK$4 million to help the analysis. The staff can even solicit help from the “World Harbour Challenge” with members from 27 coastal cities, the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Fee Sub-Fee for the Western Pacific (IOC/WESTPAC), and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), and can invite high researchers from everywhere in the world to affix and help the initiative.
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