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| BENINESE ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Acidification
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0.00% (1990) |
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[50th of 141]
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Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI
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0.33 % of GNI
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[99th of 179]
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Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI
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0.93 % of GNI
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[19th of 57]
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Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI
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0.37 % of GNI
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[80th of 165]
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Areas under protection
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5 |
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[130th of 146]
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(per capita)
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0.65368 per 1 million people |
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[121st of 146]
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Biosphere reserves area
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623 thousand hectares |
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[45th of 86]
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(per capita)
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81.4486 thousand hectares per 1 |
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[29th of 86]
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Breeding birds threatened
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0.65% |
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[126th of 136]
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Carbon efficiency
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0.37 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[118th of 141]
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CFC consumption
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34.82 |
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[92nd of 107]
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(per capita)
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0.00455223 per 1,000 people |
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[89th of 107]
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CO2 Emissions
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1,654.7 |
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[127th of 178]
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(per capita)
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0.216329 per 1,000 people |
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[143rd of 176]
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CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP
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0.26 kg/PPP$
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[105th of 170]
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CO2 emissions > kt
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2,040.29 kt
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[137th of 195]
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(per capita)
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0.258 kt
per 1,000 people |
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[162nd of 196]
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CPIA policy and institutions for environmental sustainability rating
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3.5
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[9th of 75]
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Current issues
inadequate supplies of potable water; poaching threatens wildlife populations; deforestation; desertification |
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Ecological footprint
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0.97 |
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[113rd 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; 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; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
; World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Benin, Republic of Benin, Republique du Benin
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