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Areas under protection
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719 |
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[17th of 146]
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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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DEFINITION: Carbon economic efficiency (CO2 emissions per dollar GDP)
Units: Metric Tons/US Dollar GDP |
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SOURCE: World Resources Institute |
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CO2 Emissions
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64,381.6 |
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[41st of 178]
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DEFINITION: CO2: Total Emissions (excluding land-use) Units: thousand metric tonnes of carbon dioxide |
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SOURCE: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center |
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Ecological footprint
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5.45 |
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[27th of 141]
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DEFINITION: Ecological footprint per capita
Units: Hectares per Person |
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SOURCE: 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 |
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Endangered species protection
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100% |
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[16th of 141]
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DEFINITION: Percent of CITES reporting requirements met
Units: Percent of Requirements Met
Units: Countries that have not ratified the CITES convention are recorded as having zero percent of their requirements met. |
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SOURCE: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress. |
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Forest area > % of land area
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46.84 % of land area
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[47th of 195]
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DEFINITION: Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees, whether productive or not. |
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SOURCE: 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 |
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Known mammal species
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83 |
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[101st of 145]
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DEFINITION: Known mammal species (1992-2002). |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Municipal waste generation
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560 kgs per person per year |
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[8th of 17]
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DEFINITION: Kilograms of municipal waste generated per year (2000). |
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SOURCE: World Resources Institute |
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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16,748 |
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[42nd of 199]
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DEFINITION: 1999 total CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring. Emissions are expressed in thousand metric tons of carbon (not CO2). |
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SOURCE: OECD Environmental Data Compendium: 2002 |
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita
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8 |
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[17th of 29]
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DEFINITION: Tons of Carbon Dioxide produced per capita in 1998 or latest available year. Carbon dioxide from energy use only. Excludes international marine bunkers. |
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SOURCE: Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication |
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Pollution > Municipal Waste per capita
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510 |
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[13th of 29]
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DEFINITION: Municipal waste is that which is collected and treated by or for municipalities: household waste and bulky waste as well as comparable waste from small communities or industrial enterprises; and market and garden residue. |
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SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium |
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Protected area
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28.3 |
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[5th of 147]
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DEFINITION: Environmentally protected area (1997) |
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SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium |
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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850 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[59th of 141]
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DEFINITION: SO2 emissions per populated land area
Units: 1000 Metric Tons/Sq. Km. of Populated Land Area
Units: We obtained the total emissions for each country by summarizing emissions data, originally available as a grid map with 1 degree x 1 degree cells. Air pollution is generally greatest in densely populated areas. To take this into account, we used the Gridded Population of the World dataset available from CIESIN and calculated the total land area in each country inhabited with a population density of greater than 5 persons per sq. km. We then used this land area as a denominator for the emissions data. |
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SOURCE: Jacaranda Atlas |
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Threatened species
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61 |
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[31st of 158]
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DEFINITION: Number of Threatened Species (1990-99) |
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SOURCE: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE |
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Threatened species > Mammal
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7 |
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[109th of 160]
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DEFINITION: Number of threatened mammal species (1997) |
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SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook |
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Waste generation
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380 kgs per person per year |
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[9th of 16]
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DEFINITION: Kilograms of waste generated per person per year ( 2000). |
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SOURCE: Jacaranda Atlas |
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Water > Availability
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6.37 thousand cubic metres |
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[49th of 141]
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DEFINITION: Water availability per capita (1961-1990 (avg.))
Units: Thousands Cubic Meters/Person
Units: This variable measures internal renewable water (average annual surface runoff and groundwater recharge generated from endogenous precipitation) |
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SOURCE: OECD Environmental Data Compendium: 2002 |
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Water > Freshwater pollution
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0.88 tons/cubic km |
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[33rd of 69]
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DEFINITION: Industrial organic pollutants per available freshwater
Units: Metric Tons of BOD Emissions per Cubic Km of Water
Units: Emissions of organic water pollutants are measured by biochemical oxygen demand, which refers to the amount of oxygen that bacteria in water will consume in breaking down waste. This is a standard water-treatment test for the presence of organic pollutants. The data from the World Bank, which represented BOD emissions (kilograms per day) were normalized by the combination of water availability per capita and water inflow availability per capita from the WaterGap2.1 model. In calculating the ESI, the base-10 logarithm of this variable was used. |
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SOURCE: Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org |
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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12.3 %
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[1st of 114]
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DEFINITION: Industry shares of emissions of organic water pollutants refer to emissions from manufacturing activities as defined by two-digit divisions of the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 2: wood (33). Emissions of organic water pollutants are measured by biochemical oxygen demand, which refers to the amount of oxygen that bacteria in water will consume in breaking down waste. This is a standard water-treatment test for the presence of organic pollutants. |
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SOURCE: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001 (for BOD emissions)and Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 (for data on waterquantity). via ciesin.org |
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Wildness
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0.04% |
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[106th of 141]
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DEFINITION: Percent of land area having very low anthropogenic impact
Units: Percent of Land Area
Units: Global grids for population (GPW), land use (USGS AVHRR based classification from EROS data center), VMAP roads, VMAP railways, VMAP coastlines, VMAP major rivers and the stable lights data were all scored for "wildness". The scores were aggregated and normalized. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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