Environment Stats: compare key data on United Kingdom & Wallis and Futuna

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STAT	United Kingdom	Wallis and Futuna	HISTORY
Current issues	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	deforestation (only small portions of the original forests remain) largely as a result of the continued use of wood as the main fuel source; as a consequence of cutting down the forests, the mountainous terrain of Futuna is particularly prone to erosion; there are no permanent settlements on Alofi because of the lack of natural fresh water resources
Proportion of land and marine area under protection	23.37% Ranked 44th. 4710 times more than Wallis and Futuna	0.00496% Ranked 218th.
Proportion of land area under protection	27.91% Ranked 36th. 168 times more than Wallis and Futuna	0.166% Ranked 214th.

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