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| BRAZILIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Acidification
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0.00% (1990) |
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[132nd of 141]
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Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI
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0.29 % of GNI
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[106th of 179]
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Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI
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0.33 % of GNI
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[88th of 165]
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Areas under protection
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802 |
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[16th of 146]
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(per capita)
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4.30921 per 1 million people |
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[68th of 146]
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Biodiversity richness
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1 |
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[47th of 53]
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Biosphere reserves area
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125,042 thousand hectares |
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[2nd of 86]
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(per capita)
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671.861 thousand hectares per 1 |
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[6th of 86]
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Breeding birds threatened
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7.53% |
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[18th of 136]
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Carbon efficiency
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0.71 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[99th of 141]
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CFC consumption
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588,839 |
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[5th of 107]
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(per capita)
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3.16388 per 1,000 people |
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[22nd of 107]
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CO2 Emissions
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327,858 |
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[15th of 178]
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(per capita)
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1.76161 per 1,000 people |
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[91st of 176]
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CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP
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0.23 kg/PPP$
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[112nd of 170]
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CO2 emissions > kt
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298,333 kt
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[20th of 195]
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(per capita)
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1.645 kt
per 1,000 people |
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[111st of 196]
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Current issues
deforestation in Amazon Basin destroys the habitat and endangers a multitude of plant and animal species indigenous to the area; there is a lucrative illegal wildlife trade; air and water pollution in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and several other large cities; land degradation and water pollution caused by improper mining activities; wetland degradation; severe oil spills |
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Ecological footprint
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2.6 |
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[61st of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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54.2% |
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[86th 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.; 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
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil, Republica Federativa do Brasil, Brasil
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