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Asia > Turkmenistan > Environment

TURKMENISTANI ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0% [118th of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 3.68 % of GNI Time series [2nd of 179]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 1.12 % of GNI Time series [21st of 165]
Areas under protection 23 [86th of 146]
    Areas under protection (per capita) 4.64459 per 1 million people [64th of 146]
Biosphere reserves area 35 thousand hectares [78th of 86]
    Biosphere reserves area (per capita) 7.06785 thousand hectares per 1 [63rd of 86]
Carbon efficiency 5.67 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [5th of 141]
CFC consumption 212.63 [78th of 107]
    CFC consumption (per capita) 0.0429382 per 1,000 people [72nd of 107]
CO2 Emissions 34,584.1 [62nd of 178]
    CO2 Emissions (per capita) 6.98387 per 1,000 people [42nd of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 2.06 kg/PPP$ Time series [3rd of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 43,329.63 kt Time series [61st of 195]
    CO2 emissions > kt (per capita) 9.223 kt per 1,000 people Time series [36th of 196]
Current issues
contamination of soil and groundwater with agricultural chemicals, pesticides; salination, water logging of soil due to poor irrigation methods; Caspian Sea pollution; diversion of a large share of the flow of the Amu Darya into irrigation contributes to that river's inability to replenish the Aral Sea; desertification
Ecological footprint 3.62 [47th of 141]
Endangered species protection 0% [133rd of 141]
Fertiliser consumption 926.38 hundred grams/hectare [57th of 141]
Forest area > % of land area 8.78 % of land area Time series [154th of 195]
Forest area > sq. km 41,270 km² Time series [75th of 195]
    Forest area > sq. km (per capita) 8,538.74 km² per 1,000 people Time series [53rd of 195]
Freshwater withdrawal 24.65 Time series [24th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Agricultural 98% Time series [3rd of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Domestic 2% Time series [117th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Industrial 1% Time series [104th of 124]
Groundwater withdrawals 100.3 [47th of 188]
International agreements > Party to
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection
International agreements > Signed but not ratified
none of the selected agreements
Known breeding bird species 204 [77th of 146]
    Known breeding bird species (per capita) 41.1955 per 1 million people [36th of 146]
Known mammal species 103 [83rd of 145]
    Known mammal species (per capita) 20.7997 per 1 million people [40th of 145]
Marine areas under protection 1 [91st of 95]
    Marine areas under protection (per capita) 0.201939 per 1 million people [67th of 95]
Marine fish catch 0 tons [132nd of 141]
    Marine fish catch (per capita) 0 tons per 1,000 people [132nd of 141]
Non-wildness 0.78% [109th of 141]
NOx emissions per populated area 0.17 thousand metric tons/squ [98th of 141]
PM10, country level > micrograms per cubic meter 61.9 mcg/m³ Time series [51st of 185]
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999 8,847 [64th of 199]
Protected area 4.2 [91st of 147]
SO2 emissions per populated area 180 thousand metric tons/squ [103rd of 141]
SO2 exports 964.44 hundred metric tons [85th of 141]
Threatened species 33 [65th of 158]
Threatened species > Mammal 11 [78th of 160]
Total renewable water resources 60.9 cu km Time series [11th of 31]
Urban NO2 concentration 78.54 micrograms/m3 [10th of 141]
Urban SO2 concentration 92.24 micrograms/m3 [31st of 141]
Water > Availability -0.49 thousand cubic metres [136th of 141]
Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration 6.74 mls/litre [94th of 141]
Water > Phosphorus concentration 0.48 mls/litre [38th of 141]
Water > Salinisation 2,438.25 [8th of 141]
Water > Severe water stress 92.9 [10th of 140]
Water > Suspended solids 7.86 mls/litre [8th of 141]
Wildness 22.28% [45th 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; 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; 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

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