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| PORTUGUESE ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Areas under protection
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58 |
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[65th of 146]
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Carbon efficiency
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0.97 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[83rd of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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64,814 |
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[40th of 178]
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Current issues
soil erosion; air pollution caused by industrial and vehicle emissions; water pollution, especially in coastal areas |
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Ecological footprint
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4.99 |
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[34th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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72.2% |
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[64th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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41.34 % of land area
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[61st of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km
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37,830 km²
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[78th of 195]
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Known mammal species
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63 |
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[125th of 145]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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16,376 |
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[44th of 199]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita
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5 |
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[27th of 29]
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Pollution > Municipal Waste per capita
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440 |
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[19th of 29]
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Protected area
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6.5 |
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[66th of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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1,170 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[46th of 141]
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Threatened species
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97 |
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[19th of 158]
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Threatened species > Mammal
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13 |
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[58th of 160]
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Water > Availability
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3.25 thousand cubic metres |
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[66th of 141]
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Water > Freshwater pollution
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2.5 tons/cubic km |
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[19th of 69]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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5.27 %
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[5th of 114]
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Wildness
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0.78% |
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[89th 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:
Portugal, Portuguese Republic, Republica Portuguesa
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