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Africa > Ghana > Environment

GHANAIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0.00% (1990) [91st of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 0.53 % of GNI ... [63rd of 179]
Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI 1.81 % of GNI ... [12th of 57]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.13 % of GNI ... [123rd of 165]
Areas under protection 16 [96th of 146]
    (per capita) 0.729062 per 1 million people [114th of 146]
Biodiversity richness 2 [20th of 53]
Biosphere reserves area 8 thousand hectares [86th of 86]
    (per capita) 0.364531 thousand hectares per 1 [85th of 86]
Breeding birds threatened 1.51% [96th of 136]
Carbon efficiency 0.36 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [120th of 141]
CFC consumption 134 [81st of 107]
    (per capita) 0.0061059 per 1,000 people [88th of 107]
CO2 Emissions 5,921.8 [99th of 178]
    (per capita) 0.269835 per 1,000 people [142nd of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 0.18 kg/PPP$ ... [128th of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 7,728.93 kt ... [99th of 195]
    (per capita) 0.364 kt per 1,000 people ... [156th of 196]
CPIA policy and institutions for environmental sustainability rating 3.5 ... [24th of 75]
Current issues
recurrent drought in north severely affects agricultural activities; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; poaching and habitat destruction threatens wildlife populations; water pollution; inadequate supplies of potable water

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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

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Ghana, Republic of Ghana

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