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| HUNGARIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Areas under protection
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186 |
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[35th of 146]
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Carbon efficiency
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1.47 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[53rd of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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56,849.5 |
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[47th of 178]
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Current issues
the upgrading of Hungary's standards in waste management, energy efficiency, and air, soil, and water pollution to meet EU requirements will require large investments |
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Ecological footprint
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5.01 |
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[33rd of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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85.7% |
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[45th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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22.05 % of land area
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[118th of 195]
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Known mammal species
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83 |
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[104th of 145]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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15,524 |
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[47th of 199]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita
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6 |
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[22nd of 29]
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Pollution > Municipal Waste per capita
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490 |
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[15th of 29]
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Pollution > Nuclear waste
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55 |
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[13th of 16]
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Protected area
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6.8 |
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[62nd of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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2,650 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[23rd of 141]
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Threatened species
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56 |
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[34th of 158]
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Threatened species > Mammal
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8 |
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[103rd of 160]
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Water > Availability
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1.17 thousand cubic metres |
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[103rd of 141]
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Water > Freshwater pollution
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1.17 tons/cubic km |
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[29th of 69]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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5.52 %
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[7th of 114]
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Wildness
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0.07% |
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[103rd 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; 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
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Hungary, Republic of Hungary, Magyar Koztarsasag, Magyarorszag
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