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Arctic Region > Iceland > Environment
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| ICELANDIC ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Areas under protection
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79 |
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[51st of 146]
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Carbon efficiency
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0.78 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[93rd of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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2,231.7 |
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[122nd of 178]
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Current issues
water pollution from fertilizer runoff; inadequate wastewater treatment |
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Ecological footprint
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6.02 |
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[19th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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0% |
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[128th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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0.46 % of land area
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[188th of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km
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460 km²
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[164th of 195]
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Known mammal species
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11 |
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[144th of 145]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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564 |
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[126th of 199]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita
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8 |
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[16th of 29]
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Pollution > Municipal Waste per capita
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650 |
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[3rd of 29]
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Protected area
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9.7 |
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[40th of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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960 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[53rd of 141]
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Threatened species
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1 |
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[159th of 158]
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Threatened species > Mammal
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1 |
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[158th of 160]
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Water > Availability
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294.34 thousand cubic metres |
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[1st of 141]
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Water > Freshwater pollution
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0.08 tons/cubic km |
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[63rd of 69]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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1.01 %
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[73rd of 114]
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Wildness
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80.08% |
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[4th 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
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Iceland, Republic of Iceland, Lydhveldidh Island, Island
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