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Oceania > Australia > Environment

AUSTRALIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0.00% (1990) [83rd of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 0.37 % of GNI ... [84th of 179]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.07 % of GNI ... [143rd of 165]
Biodiversity richness 1 [38th of 53]
Breeding birds threatened 4.93% [31st of 136]
Carbon efficiency 2.07 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [33rd of 141]
CFC consumption 0.22 [99th of 107]
    (per capita) 0 per 1,000 people [100th of 107]
CO2 Emissions 332,377 [14th of 178]
    (per capita) 16.5444 per 1,000 people [8th of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 0.65 kg/PPP$ ... [32nd of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 354,054.6 kt ... [15th of 195]
    (per capita) 17.816 kt per 1,000 people ... [13th of 196]
Coral reefs > Area 48,960 sq km [1st of 28]
    (per $ GDP) 0.0800392 sq km per $1 million [13th of 26]
    (per capita) 2.43703 sq km per 1,000 people [9th of 27]
Coral reefs > Share 17.22%
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
Ecological footprint 8.49 [7th of 141]
Endangered reptile species 37 [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

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Australia, Commonwealth of Australia

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