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Africa > Rwanda > Environment

RWANDAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0.00% (1990) [133rd of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 0.22 % of GNI ... [130th of 179]
Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI 2.64 % of GNI ... [7th of 57]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.12 % of GNI ... [129th of 165]
Areas under protection 6 [129th of 146]
    (per capita) 0.710816 per 1 million people [115th of 146]
Biosphere reserves area 13 thousand hectares [83rd of 86]
    (per capita) 1.5401 thousand hectares per 1 [77th of 86]
Breeding birds threatened 1.75% [92nd of 136]
Carbon efficiency 0.21 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [131st of 141]
CO2 Emissions 595.8 [146th of 178]
    (per capita) 0.0705841 per 1,000 people [164th of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 0.06 kg/PPP$ ... [156th of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 600.73 kt ... [162nd of 195]
    (per capita) 0.069 kt per 1,000 people ... [186th of 196]
CPIA policy and institutions for environmental sustainability rating 3 ... [54th of 75]
Current issues
deforestation results from uncontrolled cutting of trees for fuel; overgrazing; soil exhaustion; soil erosion; widespread poaching
Ecological footprint 0.9 [123rd of 141]
Endangered species protection 16.7% [107th of 141]
Fertiliser consumption 3.66 hundred grams/hectare [137th of 141]

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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; 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; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001. via ciesin.org

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Rwanda, Rwandese Republic, Republika y'u Rwanda

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