Engineering Tomorrow's Industrial Refrigeration Solutions in KSA Main driving factors for doing this event A- Facts and statistics 1. Food Production ( Source: Arab Agricultural statistics year book – Alpen Capital) Due to the scarcity of arable land and an arid climate, agricultural food production in the GCC region has been minimal. According to the FAO , of the total area, the land suitable for cultivation is just 1.7% in Saudi Arabia and 3.0% in the UAE compared to 18.4% in the US , 23.7% in the UK, 16.3% in China and 51.6% in India 2. GCC countries largely rely on imports to meet most of their food requirement. They imported as much as 37.2 million metric tons of food in 2007, more than three times the food produced locally. GASO Materials arranged & presented by Ghaleb Abusaa – Eng. Of Opinion 1 www.Abusaa.com 1 | Danfoss IR Events Email: ghaleb.abusaa@abusaa.com
Engineering Tomorrow's Industrial Refrigeration Solutions in KSA Main driving factors for doing this event 3. For Food Safety and extended safe shelf life of food items, Refrigeration is a must from farm to fork 4. While Refrigeration industry is helping food safety, and extending food shelf life in one hand, it adversely affects food security and our environment on the other hand. Environment being atmosphere, land and ocean Ocean Acidification: The Other CO 2 Fish and sea Food are a Problem primary source of protein for more than one Billion of Ocean based food security poorest people on Earth threatened in a high CO 2 world GASO Materials arranged & presented by Ghaleb Abusaa – Eng. Of Opinion 2 www.Abusaa.com 2 | Danfoss IR Events Email: ghaleb.abusaa@abusaa.com
Engineering Tomorrow's Industrial Refrigeration Solutions in KSA Desalination, Re-claimed land, Construction, Coastal areas and Reef Manmade effects and corrective actions being done or planned Courtesy by Salah Nizar sustainability director - QPM GASO Materials arranged & presented by Ghaleb Abusaa – Eng. Of Opinion 3 www.Abusaa.com 3 | Danfoss IR Events Email: ghaleb.abusaa@abusaa.com
Engineering Tomorrow's Industrial Refrigeration Solutions in KSA The Results Global warming Ocean Under Stress: The Other CO2 Problem The burning of fossil fuels not only increases CO2 in the atmosphere but also in the ocean. As a result, the concentration of hydrogen ions Breathl Hot increases (increasing acidity) whilst Sour ess the concentration of carbonate ions decreases. Source University of Maryland. GASO Materials arranged & presented by Ghaleb Abusaa – Eng. Of Opinion 4 www.Abusaa.com 4 | Danfoss IR Events Email: ghaleb.abusaa@abusaa.com
Engineering Tomorrow's Industrial Refrigeration Solutions in KSA Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem Ocean based food security threatened in a high CO2 world GASO Materials arranged & presented by Ghaleb Abusaa – Eng. Of Opinion 5 www.Abusaa.com 5 | Danfoss IR Events Email: ghaleb.abusaa@abusaa.com
Engineering Tomorrow's Industrial Refrigeration Solutions in KSA Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem Ocean based food security threatened in a high CO2 world GASO Materials arranged & presented by Ghaleb Abusaa – Eng. Of Opinion 6 www.Abusaa.com 6 | Danfoss IR Events Email: ghaleb.abusaa@abusaa.com
Engineering Tomorrow's Industrial Refrigeration Solutions in KSA Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem Ocean based food security threatened in a high CO2 world As Increasing temperature ocean rise, so do temperatures levels of may also harmful make U.S. Bacteria in seafood less Shellfish safe. Ocean acidification has already had impacts on the U.S. economy. Oyster farms in Oregon experienced massive die offs of oyster larvae over the past decade. This was connected to low pH coastal waters being pumped into the hatcheries GASO Materials arranged & presented by Ghaleb Abusaa – Eng. Of Opinion 7 www.Abusaa.com 7 | Danfoss IR Events Email: ghaleb.abusaa@abusaa.com
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