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| AUSTRALIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Biodiversity richness
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1 |
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[38th of 53]
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Carbon efficiency
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2.07 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[33rd of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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332,377 |
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[14th of 178]
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Coral reefs > Area
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48,960 sq km |
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[1st of 28]
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Current issues
soil erosion from overgrazing, industrial development, urbanization, and poor farming practices; soil salinity rising due to the use of poor quality water; desertification; clearing for agricultural purposes threatens the natural habitat of many unique animal and plant species; the Great Barrier Reef off the northeast coast, the largest coral reef in the world, is threatened by increased shipping and its popularity as a tourist site; limited natural fresh water resources |
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Ecological footprint
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8.49 |
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[7th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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100% |
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[14th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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21.31 % of land area
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[120th of 195]
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Municipal waste generation
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690 kgs per person per year |
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[2nd of 17]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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94,008 |
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[13th of 199]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000
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97 |
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[15th of 25]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita
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17 |
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[3rd of 29]
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Pollution > Municipal Waste per capita
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690 |
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[2nd of 29]
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Protected area
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7 |
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[59th of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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2,840 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[18th of 141]
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Threatened species
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483 |
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[2nd of 158]
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Waste generation
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400 kgs per person per year |
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[7th of 16]
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Water > Availability
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27.81 thousand cubic metres |
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[19th of 141]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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5.32 %
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[8th of 114]
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Wildness
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74% |
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[6th of 141]
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SOURCES: ; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; World Resources Institute. 2003. Carbon Emissions from energy use and cement manufacturing, 1850 to 2000. Available on-line through the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) at Washington, DC: World Resources Institute; World Atlas of Coral Reefs accessible via United Nations Environment Program; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.; Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Report on National Reports Required Under Article VIII, Paragraph 7(a), of the Convention, Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Gigiri, Kenya, April 2000; World Development Indicators database; OECD Environmental Data Compendium: 2002 ; Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication; U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Annual, 2002, and International Energy Outlook, 2001; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium; Jacaranda Atlas; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org; Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the lastwild places on the earth's surface. via ciesin.org
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