Environment Stats: compare key data on Cook Islands & Netherlands
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- Current issues: This entry lists the most pressing and important environmental problems. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry:
- International agreements > Signed but not ratified: The various international environmental agreements which a country has signed but not ratified. Agreements are listed in alphabetical order by the abbreviated form of the full name.
- Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999: 1999 total CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring. Emissions are expressed in thousand metric tons of carbon (not CO2).
- Pollution > Greenhouse gas emissions > Kyoto Protocol sign date: Signed.
- Pollution > Greenhouse gas emissions > United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change sign date: Signature.
- Proportion of land and marine area under protection: Terrestrial and marine areas protected to total territorial area, percentage.
- Proportion of land area under protection: Terrestrial areas protected to total surface area, percentage.
- Sanitation > Population with improved sanitation > Rural: Proportion of the population using improved sanitation facilities, rural.
- Sanitation > Population with improved sanitation > Urban: Proportion of the population using improved sanitation facilities, urban.
- Sanitation > Population with improved sanitation > Urban and rural: Proportion of the population using improved sanitation facilities, total.
- Water > Drinking water > Population with improved drinking water sources > Rural: Proportion of the population using improved drinking water sources, rural.
- Water > Drinking water > Population with improved drinking water sources > Urban: Proportion of the population using improved drinking water sources, urban.
- Water > Drinking water > Population with improved drinking water sources > Urban and rural: Proportion of the population using improved drinking water sources, total.
- Water > Drinking water > Population with improved sanitation > Rural: Proportion of the population using improved sanitation facilities, rural.
- Water > Proportion of marine area under protection: Marine areas protected to territorial waters, percentage.
- CO2 Emissions: CO2: Total Emissions (excluding land-use) Units: thousand metric tonnes of carbon dioxide
SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication; Wikipedia: List of parties to the Kyoto Protocol (Parties); Wikipedia: List of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (List of parties) (Parties & Observers , UNFCCC, 1 June 2011); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division Original html; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; 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
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