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| TRINIDADIAN-TOBAGONIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Areas under protection
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25 |
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[83rd of 146]
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Carbon efficiency
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6.29 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[1st of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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18,089.9 |
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[74th of 178]
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Current issues
water pollution from agricultural chemicals, industrial wastes, and raw sewage; oil pollution of beaches; deforestation; soil erosion |
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Ecological footprint
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2.43 |
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[65th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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66.7% |
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[74th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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44.05 % of land area
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[55th of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km
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2,260 km²
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[150th of 195]
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Known mammal species
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100 |
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[84th of 145]
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Marine fish catch
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14,250 tons |
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[83rd of 141]
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NOx emissions per populated area
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0.57 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[31st of 141]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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6,847 |
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[69th of 199]
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Protected area
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3 |
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[102nd of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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520 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[76th of 141]
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Threatened species
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9 |
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[135th of 158]
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Threatened species > Mammal
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1 |
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[157th of 160]
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Water > Availability
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1.58 thousand cubic metres |
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[92nd of 141]
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Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration
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9.61 mls/litre |
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[30th of 141]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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2.01 %
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[43rd of 114]
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Wildness
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0% |
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[130th 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; 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; 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; 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:
Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, trinidad & tobago, trinidad tobago, trin. and tob.
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