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BONUS RETURN

BONUS RETURN – reducing emissions by turning nutrients and carbon into benefits – identifies and pilots economically and environmentally efficient technologies. The solutions are socially and politically equitable, contributing to win-win solutions that address interlinked challenges in the Baltic Sea region.

Farmer fertilizing arable land with phosphorus fertilizer.

Farmer fertilizing arable land with phosphorus fertilizer. Photo: Oticki /Getty

Active project

2017–2020

The pre-existing policy environment in the Baltic Sea region, defined by national interests and implemented within sectoral silos, has historically constrained innovation and implementation of systemic measures to safeguard the fundamental bio-physical basis that sustains 60 million people and 10 nations forming this vibrant region; namely its waters, its land and its air. Existing measures tend to only address challenges within a single sector and/or locality, often leading the translocation of challenges elsewhere in the Baltic Sea Region or the emergence of new challenges in another sector.

This BONUS RETURN project will focus on eco-technologies that reconcile key conflicting challenges inhibiting sustainable development in urban and rural settings within the Baltic Sea Region whilst reducing nutrient enrichment and carbonization in water bodies.

Pilots in Sweden, Finland and Poland will be set up to test the most promising eco-technologies identified by the project. Envisaged project outputs include an evidence-based review of eco-technologies; innovative models comprising both nutrient and carbon cycling; sustainability assessments of selected eco-technologies; policy recommendations for promoting the eco-technologies; and market strategies for the most promising eco-technologies.

SEI is coordinating the project with the following partners:

Highlights

Outputs

Below is a list of selected outputs from the project.

The full list is available on the BONUS RETURN website.

Team

Karina Barquet
Karina Barquet

Team Leader: Water, Coasts and Ocean; Senior Research Fellow

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Arno Rosemarin
Arno Rosemarin

Senior Research Fellow

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Biljana Macura
Biljana Macura

Senior Research Fellow and Team Lead

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Linn Järnberg
Linn Järnberg

Research Fellow

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Brenda Ochola
Brenda Ochola

Communications and Impact Officer

Communications

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Georgia Savvidou
Georgia Savvidou

Research Associate

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Adriana Soto
Adriana Soto Trujillo

Research Associate

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Somya Joshi
Somya Joshi

Head of Division: Global Agendas, Climate and Systems

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Nelson Ekane
Nelson Ekane

Research Fellow

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