AFRICAN OCEAN 2021

Oceans, which account for 70 percent of the surface of our planet, play a pivotal role in the health of our planet and those who inhabit it. Unfortunately, our oceans are polluted. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, billions of pounds of trash and other pollutants enter our oceans every year.
The ocean provides invaluable services including food and nutrition, energy, transportation, as well as absorption of pollution, coastal protection and climate regulation. The vastness of the seas once gave the impression of limitless services. Now, there is an increasing understanding of how ocean ecosystems' production, structure, and function sets limits to, and tradeoffs among, ocean services and associated societal benefits.
To achieve a high-value blue economy—where ocean health and resilience are routinely valued, safe guarded, and expanded—we must begin to move investments in agriculture, construction, energy, industry, infrastructure, and transport, to support innovations that reduce pollution and harm to downstream waters, and so will provide for a healthier ecological relationship between human activity and ocean outcomes.
Ocean neutrality requires unprecedented progress toward a number of overwhelmingly complex challenges, whose interactions with every day human activity mean they cannot be solved in just one place or by just one kind of action.

Most of these zero goals don’t allow for a “net zero” substitute:

No plastic waste.
No ocean acidification
No chemical agricultural and industrial runoff.
No oil leakage or spillage.
No coral bleaching.
No sonic trauma.
No accelerated extinction.
No sea-floor methane disruption.

We are now integrating our ocean-related programs into an Ocean Health and Resilience program, intended to follow through on the full range of our ocean stewardship commitments, and also track progress in related areas, through other initiatives
So, welcome to introduce your idea regarding the below themes:

1- Causes of Ocean Pollution

Nonpoint source pollution (Runoff)
Intentional discharge
Intentional discharge
Oil spills
Littering
Ocean mining

2- Effects of Ocean Pollution.

Harmful to marine animals
Depletion of oxygen in seawater
A threat to human health

3- Ocean Pollution Solutions.

Reduce chemical fertilizer use
Opt for reusable bottles and utensils
Hold a cleanup
Properly dispose of plastics and trash