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North America > Canada > Environment

CANADIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Areas under protection 3,822 [5th of 146]
Carbon efficiency 1.69 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [44th of 141]
CO2 Emissions 521,404 [8th of 178]
Ecological footprint 7.66 [9th of 141]
Endangered species protection 95.8% [24th of 141]
Known breeding bird species 310 [18th of 146]
Known mammal species 193 [41st of 145]
Marine fish catch 569,535 tons [24th of 141]
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000 158 [7th of 25]
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita 16 [4th of 29]
Pollution > Nuclear waste 1,340 [2nd of 16]
Pollution > Nuclear waste per capita 57.1 [1st of 16]
Protected area 10 [37th of 147]
Threatened species 40 [50th of 158]
Threatened species > Mammal 7 [105th of 160]
Water > Availability 84.51 thousand cubic metres [4th of 141]
Water > Freshwater pollution 0.11 tons/cubic km [60th of 69]
Water > Phosphorus concentration 0 mls/litre [140th of 141]
Wetlands of intl importance > Area 13,052 thousand hectares [2nd of 112]
Wildness 81.87% [2nd of 141]

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SOURCES: World Resources Institute; 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; 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; FAOSTAT on-line database; U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Annual, 2002, and International Energy Outlook, 2001; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium; Jacaranda Atlas; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org; 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; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Global Environmental Monitoring System/Water Quality Monitoring System, with data for an additional 29 countries from Prescott-Allen, R. The Well being of Nations, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001; Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the lastwild places on the earth's surface. via ciesin.org

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Canada, Canada & Newfoundland

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