Environment Stats: compare key data on Pacific Ocean & United Kingdom

Compare vs for

Current issues: This entry lists the most pressing and important environmental problems. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry:

SHOW ALL

LESS

SHARE TWEET EMBED

STAT	Pacific Ocean	United Kingdom	HISTORY
Current issues	endangered marine species include the dugong, sea lion, sea otter, seals, turtles, and whales; oil pollution in Philippine Sea and South China Sea	continues to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (has met Kyoto Protocol target of a 12.5% reduction from 1990 levels and intends to meet the legally binding target and move toward a domestic goal of a 20% cut in emissions by 2010); by 2005 the government reduced the amount of industrial and commercial waste disposed of in landfill sites to 85% of 1998 levels and recycled or composted at least 25% of household waste, increasing to 33% by 2015

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011

SHOW ALL

LESS

Citation

Economy	Geography	Transport
Environment	Government

Adblocker detected! Please consider reading this notice.

We've detected that you are using AdBlock Plus or some other adblocking software which is preventing the page from fully loading.

We don't have any banner, Flash, animation, obnoxious sound, or popup ad. We do not implement these annoying types of ads!

We need money to operate the site, and almost all of it comes from our online advertising.

Please add www.nationmaster.com to your ad blocking whitelist or disable your adblocking software.