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| BRITISH ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Areas under protection
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579 |
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[18th of 146]
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Carbon efficiency
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1.17 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[68th of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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558,225 |
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[7th of 178]
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Current issues
continues to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (has met Kyoto Protocol target of a 12.5% reduction from 1990 levels and intends to meet the legally binding target and move toward a domestic goal of a 20% cut in emissions by 2010); by 2005 the government reduced the amount of industrial and commercial waste disposed of in landfill sites to 85% of 1998 levels and recycled or composted at least 25% of household waste, increasing to 33% by 2015 |
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Ecological footprint
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6.29 |
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[16th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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100% |
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[5th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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11.76 % of land area
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[142nd of 195]
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Known mammal species
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50 |
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[135th of 145]
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Municipal waste generation
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560 kgs per person per year |
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[10th of 17]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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147,199 |
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[6th of 199]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000
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148 |
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[8th of 25]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita
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9 |
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[13th of 29]
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Pollution > Municipal Waste per capita
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480 |
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[17th of 29]
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Pollution > Nuclear waste
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820 |
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[5th of 16]
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Protected area
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20.5 |
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[11th of 147]
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Threatened species
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17 |
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[102nd of 158]
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Waste generation
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480 kgs per person per year |
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[3rd of 16]
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Water > Availability
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3.1 thousand cubic metres |
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[68th of 141]
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Water > Freshwater pollution
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3.34 tons/cubic km |
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[17th of 69]
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Wildness
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0.21% |
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[99th 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; OECD Environmental Data Compendium: 2002 ; 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; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium; 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
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