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| AUSTRIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Acidification
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50.81% |
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[9th of 141]
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Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI
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0.15 % of GNI
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[150th of 179]
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Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI
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0.34 % of GNI
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[86th of 165]
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Areas under protection
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719 |
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[17th of 146]
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(per capita)
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87.8436 per 1 million people |
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[13th of 146]
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Biosphere reserves area
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47 thousand hectares |
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[74th of 86]
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(per capita)
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5.74221 thousand hectares per 1 |
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[65th of 86]
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Breeding birds threatened
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1.41% |
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[99th of 136]
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Carbon efficiency
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0.9 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[88th of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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64,381.6 |
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[41st of 178]
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(per capita)
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7.8658 per 1,000 people |
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[32nd of 176]
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CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP
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0.3 kg/PPP$
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[92nd of 170]
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CO2 emissions > kt
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70,300.3 kt
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[43rd of 195]
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(per capita)
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8.66 kt
per 1,000 people |
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[41st of 196]
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Current issues
some forest degradation caused by air and soil pollution; soil pollution results from the use of agricultural chemicals; air pollution results from emissions by coal- and oil-fired power stations and industrial plants and from trucks transiting Austria between northern and southern Europe |
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Ecological footprint
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5.45 |
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[27th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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100% |
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[16th of 141]
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Environmental agreement compliance
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6.33 |
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[4th of 70]
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Expenditure pollution control as % of GDP
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1.7 % of GDP |
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[2nd of 17]
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Fertiliser consumption
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1,803.87 hundred grams/hectare |
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[30th of 141]
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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; World Resources Institute; 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; 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; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
; 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; Michael E. Porter et al, The Global Competitveness Report 2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. via ciesin.org; OECD Environmental Indicators, p. 104. See also Myriam Linster and Frederique Zegel, 'Pollution Abatement and Control in OECD Countries', OECD Working Group on Environmental Information and Outlooks at www.oecd.org; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001. via ciesin.org
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Austria, Republic of Austria, Republik Oesterreich, Oesterreich
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