Buzzing Alarm to work towards Marine Sustainability
Aradhya Kapoor
Former Member of Communications and Advocacy team at the Maritime Research Center (MRC), Pune.
Key Highlights
- Population growth, rapid industrialization, urbanization and an increase in production and consumption are major drivers to exploit oceans and freshwater.
- It is estimated that 4.8-12.7 million tons of plastics enter the ocean every year, highly concentrated around Indian Ocean Rim Countries.
- With ESG in action, companies mitigate lawsuits, minimize footprint, and show greater governance.
- Maritime Research Centre’s UDA framework with its research and industry arm would be grounding stone to decipher the vulnerability of organisms, its implication on the ecosystem and population.
- MRC has designed a UDA framework to understand the exploitation spectrum of underwater.
Our Blue Planet encompasses oceans covering 71% of Earth’s surface and 99% of living space by volume. It is indeed a gigantic source of biodiversity, resources, climate modulation and livelihoods. However, the ever-increasing appetite of growing population’s energy and mineral demands has exhausted the land resources, consequently shifting gears to use water bodies for economic benefits. Alas, water bodies are in dire crisis owing to aggressive anthropogenic factors such as industrialization, urbanization, population growth coupled with wide scale environmental changes. Water crisis seems to be daunting for the terrestrial ecosystem, political stability, and the future of the planet. Hence, it is essential to judiciously grab the opportunity of conserving our precious heritage before it is too late.
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Aradhya Kapoor
Former Member of Communications and Advocacy team at the Maritime Research Center (MRC), Pune.
Aradhya Kapoor works in the Communications and Advocacy team of the Maritime Research Centre (MRC), Pune.