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Europe > Belarus > Environment

BELARUSIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 4.91% [31st of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 1.79 % of GNI Time series [9th of 179]
Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI 0.43 % of GNI Time series [35th of 57]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.01 % of GNI Time series [163rd of 165]
Areas under protection 903 [14th of 146]
    Areas under protection (per capita) 87.6699 per 1 million people [14th of 146]
Biosphere reserves area 305 thousand hectares [51st of 86]
    Biosphere reserves area (per capita) 29.6117 thousand hectares per 1 [45th of 86]
Breeding birds threatened 1.36% [102nd of 136]
Carbon efficiency 2.51 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [24th of 141]
CFC consumption 6,331.14 [42nd of 107]
    CFC consumption (per capita) 0.614674 per 1,000 people [40th of 107]
CO2 Emissions 59,560.5 [45th of 178]
    CO2 Emissions (per capita) 5.78257 per 1,000 people [47th of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 1.11 kg/PPP$ Time series [12th of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 62,538.4 kt Time series [46th of 195]
    CO2 emissions > kt (per capita) 6.334 kt per 1,000 people Time series [55th of 196]
Current issues
soil pollution from pesticide use; southern part of the country contaminated with fallout from 1986 nuclear reactor accident at Chornobyl' in northern Ukraine
Ecological footprint 5.27 [32nd of 141]
Endangered species protection 50% [92nd of 141]
Fertiliser consumption 1,478.91 hundred grams/hectare [35th of 141]
Forest area > % of land area 38.05 % of land area Time series [69th of 195]
Forest area > sq. km 78,940 km² Time series [61st of 195]
    Forest area > sq. km (per capita) 8,075.215 km² per 1,000 people Time series [58th of 195]
Freshwater withdrawal 2.79 Time series [59th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Agricultural 30% Time series [112nd of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Domestic 23% Time series [40th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Industrial 47% Time series [5th of 124]
Groundwater withdrawals 115.7 [42nd of 188]
International agreements > Party to
Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
International agreements > Signed but not ratified
none of the selected agreements
Known breeding bird species 194 [87th of 146]
    Known breeding bird species (per capita) 18.835 per 1 million people [75th of 146]
Known mammal species 74 [118th of 145]
    Known mammal species (per capita) 7.18447 per 1 million people [96th of 145]
Marine fish catch 0 tons [139th of 141]
    Marine fish catch (per capita) 0 tons per 1,000 people [139th of 141]
Non-wildness 10.95% [37th of 141]
NOx emissions per populated area 0.2 thousand metric tons/squ [86th of 141]
PM10, country level > micrograms per cubic meter 6.73 mcg/m³ Time series [180th of 185]
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999 15,729 [46th of 199]
Protected area 4.2 [92nd of 147]
Red Kite > Populations and trends > Pairs 1
Red Kite > Populations and trends > Trend +/–
Red Kite > Populations and trends > Year 1997
SO2 emissions per populated area 950 thousand metric tons/squ [54th of 141]
SO2 exports 628 hundred metric tons [102nd of 141]
Threatened species 14 [122nd of 158]
Threatened species > Mammal 4 [144th of 160]
Total renewable water resources 58 cu km Time series [12th of 31]
Urban NO2 concentration 42.6 micrograms/m3 [93rd of 141]
Urban SO2 concentration 45.15 micrograms/m3 [72nd of 141]
Water > Availability 2.79 thousand cubic metres [71st of 141]
Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration 8.81 mls/litre [42nd of 141]
Water > Phosphorus concentration 0.36 mls/litre [61st of 141]
Water > Salinisation 1,124.68 [35th of 141]
Water > Severe water stress 0 [137th of 140]
Water > Suspended solids 7.54 mls/litre [12th of 141]
Wetlands of intl importance > Area 204 thousand hectares [48th of 112]
    Wetlands of intl importance > Area (per capita) 19.8058 thousand hectares per 1 m [40th of 112]
Wildness 0% [138th of 141]

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; UNEP, Production and Consumption of Ozone Depleting Substances, 1986-1998, October 1999. via ciesin.org; 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 Bank, World Development Indicators 2001. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001. via ciesin.org; ; FAOSTAT on-line database; Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the last wild places on the earth's surface. Accessed via ciesin.org; 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; Wikipedia: Red Kite ; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, RAINS-ASIA and Co-operative Programme formonitoring and evaluation of the long range transmission of air pollutants in Europe (EMEP) via ciesin.org; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Resources Institute, World Resources 1998-99; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2000; WHO,Air Management Information System-AMIS 2.0, 1998; and Global Urban Observatory, Citibase, 1999. via ciesin.org; 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; 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; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 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: Belarus, Republic of Belarus, Respublika Byelarus', byelarus

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