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ReviewAmbio2022

How unnecessarily high abatement costs and unresolved distributional issues undermine nutrient reductions to the Baltic Sea.

Anna Andersson, Mark V Brady, Johanna Pohjola

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Review in Ambio, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anna AnderssonDepartment of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences & AgriFood Economics Centre, Box 7080, 220 07, Lund, Sweden. anna.r.andersson@slu.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0349-2728
Mark V BradyDepartment of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences & AgriFood Economics Centre, Box 7080, 220 07, Lund, Sweden.
Johanna PohjolaFinnish Environment Institute, Latokartanonkaari 11, 00790, Helsinki, Finland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper systematically reviews the literature on how to reduce nutrient emissions to the Baltic Sea cost-effectively and considerations for allocating these costs fairly among countries. The literature shows conclusively that the reduction targets of the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) could be achieved at considerably lower cost, if countries would cooperate to implement the least costly abatement plan. Focusing on phosphorus abatement could be prudent as the often recommended measures-wastewater treatment and wetlands-abate nitrogen too. An implication of our review is that the potential for restoring the Baltic Sea to good health is undermined by an abatement strategy that is more costly than necessary and likely to be perceived as unfair by several countries. Neither the BSAP nor the cost-effective solution meet the surveyed criteria for fairness, implying a need for side-payments.

Indexed as

EutrophicationPhosphorusBaltic StatesNitrogenNutrientsOceans and SeasNitrogenNutrientsPhosphorusBaltic SeaCost effectivenessEutrophicationFairnessNutrients

Identifiers

PMID34109539
PMCPMC8651968

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