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| AUSTRALIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Acidification
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0.00% (1990) |
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[83rd of 141]
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Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI
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0.37 % of GNI
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[84th of 179]
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Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI
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0.07 % of GNI
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[143rd of 165]
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Biodiversity richness
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1 |
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[38th of 53]
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Breeding birds threatened
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4.93% |
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[31st of 136]
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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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CFC consumption
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0.22 |
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[99th of 107]
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(per capita)
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0 per 1,000 people |
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[100th of 107]
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CO2 Emissions
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332,377 |
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[14th of 178]
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(per capita)
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16.5444 per 1,000 people |
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[8th of 176]
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CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP
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0.65 kg/PPP$
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[32nd of 170]
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CO2 emissions > kt
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354,054.6 kt
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[15th of 195]
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(per capita)
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17.816 kt
per 1,000 people |
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[13th of 196]
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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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(per $ GDP)
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0.0800392 sq km per $1 million |
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[13th of 26]
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(per capita)
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2.43703 sq km per 1,000 people |
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[9th of 27]
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Coral reefs > Share
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17.22% |
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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 reptile species
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37 |
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[1st of 7]
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SOURCES: Stockholm Environment Institute at York, Acidification in Developing Countries: Ecosystem Sensitivity and the Critical Loads Approach at the Global scale, 2000 via ciesin.org; World Development Indicators database; ; 2000 IUCN Red List, and World Resources Institute,World Resources 2000-2001, Washington, DC: WRI, 2000. Original sources: World Conservation Monitoring Center, IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other sources.; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; UNEP, Production and Consumption of Ozone Depleting Substances, 1986-1998, October 1999. via ciesin.org; 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; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
; World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.; World Resources: A Report by the World Resources Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development
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