WRI's goal is to protect the global climate system from further harm due to emissions of greenhouse gases and help humanity and the natural world adapt to unavoidable climate change.
WRI's People and Ecosystems goal is to reverse rapid degradation of ecosystems and assure their capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services.
This map identifies 36 eutrophic coastal zones; 9 with documented hypoxia and 27 areas of concern. The majority of information on eutrophic areas in Australia is derived from a national water quality audit conducted in 2001.