Environment Stats: compare key data on United Kingdom & Western Sahara

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Current issues: This entry lists the most pressing and important environmental problems. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry:
International agreements > Signed but not ratified: The various international environmental agreements which a country has signed but not ratified. Agreements are listed in alphabetical order by the abbreviated form of the full name.
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999: 1999 total CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring. Emissions are expressed in thousand metric tons of carbon (not CO2).
Proportion of land and marine area under protection: Terrestrial and marine areas protected to total territorial area, percentage.
Proportion of land area under protection: Terrestrial areas protected to total surface area, percentage.
Water > Proportion of marine area under protection: Marine areas protected to territorial waters, percentage.

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STAT	United Kingdom	Western Sahara
Current issues	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	sparse water and lack of arable land
International agreements > Signed but not ratified	none of the selected agreements	none of the selected agreements
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999	147,199 Ranked 6th. 2265 times more than Western Sahara	65 Ranked 175th.
Proportion of land and marine area under protection	23.37% Ranked 44th. 3 times more than Western Sahara	6.71% Ranked 132nd.
Proportion of land area under protection	27.91% Ranked 36th. 5 times more than Western Sahara	5.77% Ranked 160th.
Water > Proportion of marine area under protection	16.61% Ranked 35th.	18.23% Ranked 32nd. 10% more than United Kingdom

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