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| PAPUA NEW GUINEAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Areas under protection
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29 |
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[79th of 146]
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Carbon efficiency
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0.6 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[105th of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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2,445.4 |
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[120th of 178]
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Coral reefs > Area
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13,840 sq km |
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[2nd of 28]
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Current issues
rain forest subject to deforestation as a result of growing commercial demand for tropical timber; pollution from mining projects; severe drought |
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Ecological footprint
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1.4 |
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[89th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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73.9% |
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[63rd of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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65 % of land area
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[18th of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km
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294,370 km²
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[21st of 195]
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Known mammal species
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214 |
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[33rd of 145]
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Marine fish catch
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37,946 tons |
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[71st of 141]
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NOx emissions per populated area
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0.01 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[141st of 141]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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662 |
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[122nd of 199]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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40 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[139th of 141]
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Threatened species
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122 |
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[11th of 158]
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Threatened species > Mammal
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57 |
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[7th of 160]
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Water > Availability
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154.61 thousand cubic metres |
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[3rd of 141]
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Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration
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8.3 mls/litre |
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[57th of 141]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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6.2 %
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[6th of 114]
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Wildness
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35.28% |
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[33rd 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; World Atlas of Coral Reefs accessible via United Nations Environment Program; 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; FAOSTAT on-line database; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE; Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Jacaranda Atlas; 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; 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:
Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, new guinea, papua n.g.
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