Opha Pauline Dube

**Opha Pauline Dube** (an haife ta a shekara ta 1960) masanin kimiyyar muhalli ne kuma Mataimakin Farfesa a Sashen Kimiyya na Muhalli a Jami'ar Botswanan . Ta kasance co-rubuce na Rahoton Musamman na IPCC game da Warming na Duniya na 1.5 °C. Tana ɗaya daga cikin masana kimiyya goma sha biyar da suka kirkiro Rahoton Ci Gaban Duniya na 2023 ga Majalisar Dinkin Duniya.

## Ilimi
An ba Dube lambar yabo ta MPhil a Applied Remote Sensing a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Cranfield a Burtaniya a shekarar 1989.  Ta kammala karatu tare da PhD daga Jami'ar Queensland a shekara ta 2000. Ta sami digirin digirin digirinta saboda hadin gwiwa tsakanin Jami'ar Botswana da Jami'ar Queensland da Hukumar Binciken Kimiyya da Masana'antu ta Commonwealth ta shirya. Aikin ya haɗa da bincika ko ana iya amfani da hanyoyin da aka yi amfani da su a kan iyakar Australiya don saka idanu kan lalacewar ƙasa a Botswana.

## Ayyuka da bincike
Dube Mataimakin Farfesa ne a Sashen Kimiyya na Muhalli a Jami'ar Botswana .  Binciken da ta yi da koyarwar ta mayar da hankali kan al'amuran zamantakewa da na halitta na canjin muhalli na duniya. A shekara ta 2012, ta gudanar da wata kungiya ta bincike a Cibiyar Binciken Canjin Yanayi ta Australiya (NCCARF) a Jami'ar Griffith kuma tana da irin wannan matsayi a Cibiyar Canjin Muhalli a Jami'in Oxford a shekarar 2018. 

Dube ya kasance Mataimakin Shugaban Shirin Geosphere-Biosphere na Duniya (IGBP) tsakanin 2010 da 2015  da Mataimakin Shugaba na Kwamitin Canjin Yanayi na Kasa na Botswana tsakanin 2017 da 2019.  Dube a halin yanzu yana aiki a matsayin Co-Chairman Kwamitin Ba da Shawara na Kimiyya na Binciken Yanayi don Ci Gaban Afirka (CR4D) -UNECA  da Mataimakin Shugaban Ƙungiyar Kula da Yanayi ta Duniya (WMO) Kwamitin Ba Da Shawara na Kimiyyar Kimiyya. 

Tana ɗaya daga cikin Babban Editoci na Elsevier Current Opinion a cikin mujallar ilimi ta Ci gaba da Muhalli  kuma mataimakiyar edita ce ta CSIRO Rangeland Journal .  A cikin 2019, an lissafa Dube a cikin manyan 100 na "Mutanen da suka fi tasiri a Duniya a Manufofin Yanayi"  kuma a watan Oktoba 2020, Sakatare Janar na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ya nada ta ta ta zama ɗaya daga cikin masana kimiyya goma sha biyar da suka kirkiro Rahoton Ci Gaban Duniya na 2023 ga Majalisar Dinkinobho. 

Dube ya yi aiki a matsayin wani ɓangare na Kwamitin Gwamnati kan Canjin Yanayi (IPCC) Kungiyar Aiki ta II tun bayan Rahoton Bincike na Uku. Wannan rukuni "yana kimanta matsalar zamantakewar al'umma da tattalin arziki da tsarin halitta ga canjin yanayi, mummunan sakamako mai kyau na canjin yanayi da zaɓuɓɓuka don daidaitawa da shi". Ta ba da gudummawa ga Rahotanni na Uku na IPCC, Na huɗu da Na biyar, tana aiki a matsayin marubuci da editan bita. Ayyukanta a kan Canjin Yanayi 2007: Tasiri, Daidaitawa, da Raunin Rashin Rashin Ruwa (AR4 WG2), a matsayin wani ɓangare na Rahoton Bincike na huɗu, ya haifar da Dube da aka ba shi Takardar Shaidar Kyautar Nobel ta Duniya a 2007.  Ta kuma kasance mai tsara jagoran marubuta don rahotanni na musamman na IPCC guda biyu: Gudanar da Hadarin Babban Ayyuka da Bala'o'i don Ci gaba da Canjin Canjin Yanayi (SREX)  da Warming na Duniya na 1.5 ° C (SR15). 

Dube ya yi aiki a matsayin editan bita don rahoton kimantawa na shida na IPCC mai zuwa, a kan babi mai taken "Abubuwan, fiber, da sauran samfuran muhalli".

## Kyaututtuka da girmamawa

* 2007: Mai karɓar takardar shaidar Nobel ta Duniya 
* 2018: "Alumni na Duniya na Shekara" a Jami'ar Queensland ta shekara-shekara Alumni Awards 
* 2019: An lissafa su a cikin manyan 100 "Mutanen da suka fi tasiri a Duniya a Manufofin Yanayi" 

## Manazarta