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Coastal and freshwater eutrophication

Data source provider

Not available

Use cases

Climate-related disclosures, Exposure quantification, Macro-economic modelling, Product development, Scenario analysis

Data group

Pollution

Metric Type

Physical vulnerability

Methodology/ Standard / Classification/ Taxonomy / Reference

1. United Nation Environmental Protection (UNEP)
2. United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Unit (e.g. CO2)

Eutrophication data- number of hypoxic ecosystems

Dimension (e.g. Sector, Customer)

By State

Time horizon 

Backward-looking

Frequency

Not available

Time series

Not available

Accessibility

Not available

Observation on data availability/gaps

Data is not available.
Example of data for individual states in the United States from United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the number of state estuarine, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems with documented hypoxia or concern for hypoxia (i.e., presence of elevated nutrient concentrations, chlorophyll a levels, or harmful algal blooms): https://www.epa.gov/nutrient-policy-data/documented-hypoxia-and-associated-risk-factors-estuaries-coastal-waters-and

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