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Areas under protection
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73 |
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[58th of 146]
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Carbon efficiency
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1.23 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[65th of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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42,815.3 |
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[56th of 178]
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Current issues
water pollution, especially of lakes, from agricultural runoff |
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Ecological footprint
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9.43 |
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[6th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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0% |
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[126th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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9.71 % of land area
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[151st of 195]
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Known mammal species
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25 |
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[139th of 145]
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Municipal waste generation
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560 kgs per person per year |
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[9th of 17]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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11,030 |
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[58th of 199]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita
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10 |
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[11th of 29]
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Pollution > Municipal Waste per capita
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560 |
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[11th of 29]
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Protected area
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0.9 |
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[127th of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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970 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[52nd of 141]
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Threatened species
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6 |
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[147th of 158]
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Waste generation
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330 kgs per person per year |
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[14th of 16]
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Water > Availability
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12.47 thousand cubic metres |
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[37th of 141]
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Water > Freshwater pollution
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0.68 tons/cubic km |
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[38th of 69]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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7.5 %
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[3rd of 114]
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Wildness
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0.01% |
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[114th 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; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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 Development Indicators database; OECD Environmental Data Compendium: 2002 ; Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium; Jacaranda Atlas; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE; 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; 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:
Ireland, ireland republic, Republic of Ireland, Irish Republic
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