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Europe > France > Environment

FRENCH ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Areas under protection 1,325 [11th of 146]
Carbon efficiency 0.78 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [94th of 141]
CO2 Emissions 363,484 [11th of 178]
Ecological footprint 7.27 [11th of 141]
Endangered species protection 100% [19th of 141]
Known breeding bird species 283 [24th of 146]
Known mammal species 93 [90th of 145]
Marine fish catch 498,887 tons [27th of 141]
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000 109 [11th of 25]
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita 6 [24th of 29]
Pollution > Nuclear waste 1,130 [3rd of 16]
Pollution > Nuclear waste per capita 20.6 [4th of 16]
Protected area 11.7 [32nd of 147]
Threatened species 89 [21st of 158]
Threatened species > Mammal 13 [62nd of 160]
Water > Availability 3.26 thousand cubic metres [65th of 141]
Water > Freshwater pollution 2.49 tons/cubic km [20th of 69]
Water > Phosphorus concentration 0.17 mls/litre [105th of 141]
Wetlands of intl importance > Area 795 thousand hectares [20th of 112]
Wildness 0.04% [107th 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: France, French Republic, Republique Francaise

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26th April 2005 		Some of the information here is outdated and is now invalid, while some of the information that could be useful is not there, like the adaptation of people in France and the modification of the land done by the people as well as the dependence of the people on the land.

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