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How saving the reef will cost 6.3 Billion
How saving the reef will cost 6.3 Billion


Costing report

Summary:
"Estimate the costs of undertaking a number management action based solutions sets designed to make significant progress towards the 2025 reef targets (i.e. a 20 per cent reduction in anthropogenic end-of catchment fine sediment loads for Mackay Whitsunday and Burnett Mary with a 50 per cent reduction in the Fitzroy, Burdekin and Wet Tropics catchment by 2025; a 50 per cent reduction in anthropogenic end of-catchment dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) for Mackay Whitsunday and Burnett Mary catchments and an 80 per cent reduction in the Burdekin and Wet Tropics catchments by 2025)"

Final report.

Summary: The greatest water quality risks to the Reef are:
  • excess nutrients (especially nitrogen from fertiliser),
  • fine sediments, and
  • pesticides.