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Europe > Greece > Environment

GREEK ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Areas under protection 88 [47th of 146]
Carbon efficiency 1.51 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [50th of 141]
CO2 Emissions 92,150.3 [34th of 178]
Ecological footprint 5.58 [24th of 141]
Endangered species protection 100% [22nd of 141]
Known breeding bird species 255 [36th of 146]
Known mammal species 95 [89th of 145]
Marine fish catch 143,913 tons [50th of 141]
NOx emissions per populated area 0.47 thousand metric tons/squ [35th of 141]
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita 8 [19th of 29]
Protected area 2.2 [115th of 147]
SO2 emissions per populated area 1,830 thousand metric tons/squ [33rd of 141]
Threatened species > Mammal 13 [64th of 160]
Water > Availability 2.96 thousand cubic metres [69th of 141]
Water > Freshwater pollution 1.32 tons/cubic km [25th of 69]
Water > Phosphorus concentration 0.31 mls/litre [82nd of 141]
Water pollution, textile industry > % of total BOD emissions 12.36 % ... [37th of 114]
Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions 1.55 % ... [55th of 114]
Wetlands of intl importance > Area 164 thousand hectares [53rd of 112]
Wildness 0.01% [115th 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; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium; Jacaranda Atlas; 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; World Development Indicators database; 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: Greece, Hellenic Republic, Elliniki Dhimokratia, Ellas or Ellada

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