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| ITALIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI
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0.01 % of GNI
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[34th of 57]
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Areas under protection
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427 |
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[22nd of 146]
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Carbon efficiency
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0.91 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[85th of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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446,596 |
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[9th of 178]
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Current issues
air pollution from industrial emissions such as sulfur dioxide; coastal and inland rivers polluted from industrial and agricultural effluents; acid rain damaging lakes; inadequate industrial waste treatment and disposal facilities |
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Ecological footprint
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5.51 |
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[25th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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100% |
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[21st of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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33.93 % of land area
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[79th of 195]
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Known mammal species
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90 |
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[93rd of 145]
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Municipal waste generation
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500 kgs per person per year |
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[14th of 17]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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115,371 |
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[8th of 199]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000
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117 |
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[9th of 25]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita
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7 |
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[21st of 29]
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Pollution > Municipal Waste per capita
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460 |
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[18th of 29]
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Protected area
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7.3 |
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[56th of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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2,790 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[20th of 141]
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Threatened species
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75 |
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[24th of 158]
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Water > Availability
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2.04 thousand cubic metres |
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[83rd of 141]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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3.88 %
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[10th of 114]
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Wildness
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0.04% |
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[108th of 141]
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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; 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; OECD Environmental Data Compendium: 2002 ; Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication; 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; 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; 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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Italy, Italian Republic, Repubblica Italiana, Italia
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