Environment Stats: compare key data on Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) & United Kingdom

Current issues: This entry lists the most pressing and important environmental problems. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry:
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).
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.
Water > Proportion of marine area under protection: Marine areas protected to territorial waters, percentage.

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STAT	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	United Kingdom
Current issues	overfishing by unlicensed vessels is a problem; reindeer were introduced to the islands in 2001 for commercial reasons; this is the only commercial reindeer herd in the world unaffected by the 1986 Chornobyl disaster	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
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999	10 Ranked 193th.	147,199 Ranked 6th. 14720 times more than Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Proportion of land and marine area under protection	0.348% Ranked 203th.	23.37% Ranked 44th. 67 times more than Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Proportion of land area under protection	0.477% Ranked 208th.	27.91% Ranked 36th. 59 times more than Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Water > Proportion of marine area under protection	0.301% Ranked 148th.	16.61% Ranked 35th. 55 times more than Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

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