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| RUSSIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Areas under protection
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10,863 |
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[1st of 146]
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Carbon efficiency
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3.84 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[11th of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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1,540,360 |
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[3rd of 178]
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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 |
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Ecological footprint
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5.36 |
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[31st of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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78.3% |
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[54th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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49.37 % of land area
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[40th of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km
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8,087,900 km²
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[1st of 195]
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Known mammal species
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269 |
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[22nd of 145]
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NOx emissions per populated area
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0.44 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[40th of 141]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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392,287 |
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[2nd of 199]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000
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451 |
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[3rd of 25]
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Protected area
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3.1 |
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[100th of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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930 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[55th of 141]
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Threatened species
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113 |
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[15th of 158]
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Threatened species > Mammal
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31 |
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[23rd of 160]
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Water > Availability
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22.82 thousand cubic metres |
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[23rd of 141]
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Water > Freshwater pollution
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0.43 tons/cubic km |
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[43rd of 69]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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2.61 %
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[15th of 114]
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Wildness
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65.8% |
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[14th 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; 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; U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Annual, 2002, and International Energy Outlook, 2001; 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; 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:
Russia, Russian Federation, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, Rossiya
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