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Africa > Burundi > Environment

BURUNDIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0.00% (1990) [103rd of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 0.23 % of GNI ... [125th of 179]
Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI 11.32 % of GNI ... [1st of 57]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.12 % of GNI ... [128th of 165]
Areas under protection 13 [103rd of 146]
    (per capita) 1.66774 per 1 million people [93rd of 146]
Breeding birds threatened 1.55% [95th of 136]
Carbon efficiency 0.16 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [134th of 141]
CFC consumption 643.81 [66th of 107]
    (per capita) 0.0825927 per 1,000 people [61st of 107]
CO2 Emissions 240 [161st of 178]
    (per capita) 0.030789 per 1,000 people [173rd of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 0.06 kg/PPP$ ... [153rd of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 234.43 kt ... [180th of 195]
    (per capita) 0.033 kt per 1,000 people ... [191st of 196]
CPIA policy and institutions for environmental sustainability rating 2.5 ... [72nd of 75]
Current issues
soil erosion as a result of overgrazing and the expansion of agriculture into marginal lands; deforestation (little forested land remains because of uncontrolled cutting of trees for fuel); habitat loss threatens wildlife populations
Ecological footprint 0.75 [138th of 141]
Endangered species protection 27.3% [102nd of 141]
Fertiliser consumption 26.92 hundred grams/hectare [127th 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; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001. via ciesin.org

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Burundi, Republic of Burundi, Republika y'u Burundi

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