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| UKRAINIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Areas under protection
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5,182 |
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[4th of 146]
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Carbon efficiency
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5.69 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[4th of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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348,357 |
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[12th of 178]
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Current issues
inadequate supplies of potable water; air and water pollution; deforestation; radiation contamination in the northeast from 1986 accident at Chornobyl' Nuclear Power Plant |
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Ecological footprint
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4.76 |
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[36th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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0% |
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[109th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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16.53 % of land area
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[131st of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km
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95,750 km²
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[55th of 195]
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Known mammal species
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108 |
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[79th of 145]
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NOx emissions per populated area
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0.36 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[47th of 141]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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102,158 |
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[11th of 199]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000
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104 |
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[13th of 25]
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Protected area
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1.6 |
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[121st of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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2,060 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[30th of 141]
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Threatened species
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52 |
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[38th of 158]
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Threatened species > Mammal
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15 |
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[47th of 160]
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Water > Availability
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1.26 thousand cubic metres |
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[100th of 141]
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Water > Freshwater pollution
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5.52 tons/cubic km |
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[10th of 69]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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1.12 %
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[52nd of 114]
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Wildness
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0% |
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[118th 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
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