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Asia > Russia > Environment

RUSSIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0.33% [44th of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 1.61 % of GNI ... [12th of 179]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.38 % of GNI ... [79th of 165]
Areas under protection 10,863 [1st of 146]
    (per capita) 75.7426 per 1 million people [15th of 146]
Biosphere reserves area 20,532 thousand hectares [6th of 86]
    (per capita) 143.16 thousand hectares per 1 [19th of 86]
Breeding birds threatened 6.05% [26th of 136]
Carbon efficiency 3.84 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [11th of 141]
CFC consumption 817,386 [3rd of 107]
    (per capita) 5.69925 per 1,000 people [16th of 107]
CO2 Emissions 1,540,360 [3rd of 178]
    (per capita) 10.7402 per 1,000 people [16th of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 1.21 kg/PPP$ ... [9th of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 1,493,013 kt ... [3rd of 195]
    (per capita) 10.325 kt per 1,000 people ... [25th of 196]
Current issues
air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal-fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities; industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and seacoasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; groundwater contamination from toxic waste; urban solid waste management; abandoned stocks of obsolete pesticides
Ecological footprint 5.36 [31st of 141]
Endangered species protection 78.3% [54th of 141]
Environmental agreement compliance 3.16 [60th of 70]

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SOURCES: Stockholm Environment Institute at York, Acidification in Developing Countries: Ecosystem Sensitivity and the Critical Loads Approach at the Global scale, 2000 via ciesin.org; World Development Indicators database; World Resources Institute; 2000 IUCN Red List, and World Resources Institute,World Resources 2000-2001, Washington, DC: WRI, 2000. Original sources: World Conservation Monitoring Center, IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other sources.; 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; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; 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; Michael E. Porter et al, The Global Competitveness Report 2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. via ciesin.org

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Russia, Russian Federation, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, Rossiya

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