NationMaster - Libyan Environment statistics

Areas under protection	8		[122nd of 146]
Carbon efficiency	2.78 CO2 emissions/$ GDP		[21st of 141]
CFC consumption	80,339.9		[20th of 107]
CO2 Emissions	42,274.9		[57th of 178]
Ecological footprint	4.36		[39th of 141]
Endangered species protection	0%		[132nd of 141]
Known breeding bird species	76		[142nd of 146]
Known mammal species	76		[115th of 145]
Marine fish catch	32,450 tons		[72nd of 141]
NOx emissions per populated area	6.34 thousand metric tons/squ		[1st of 141]
Protected area	0.1		[145th of 147]
SO2 emissions per populated area	3,220 thousand metric tons/squ		[16th of 141]
Threatened species	16		[112nd of 158]
Threatened species > Mammal	11		[76th of 160]
Water > Availability	0.6 thousand cubic metres		[118th of 141]
Water > Phosphorus concentration	0.47 mls/litre		[40th of 141]
Water pollution, paper and pulp industry > % of total BOD emissions	1.43 %	...	[106th of 111]
Water pollution, textile industry > % of total BOD emissions	9.58 %	...	[68th of 114]
Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions	596.01 %	...	[1st of 114]
Wildness	89.9%		[1st of 141]

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SOURCES: World Resources Institute; 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; 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; Jacaranda Atlas; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 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: Libya, Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Al Jumahiriyah al Arabiyah al Libiyah ash Shabiyah al Ishtirakiyah al Uzma, libyan arab jamahiriya, the libyan arab jamahiriya

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