Germany - Environment
As far as the environment of Germany is concerned, there have been emissions from coal-burning utilities and industries contribute to air pollution; acid rain, resulting from sulfur dioxide emissions, is damaging forests; pollution in the Baltic Sea from raw sewage and industrial effluents from rivers in eastern Germany; hazardous waste disposal; government established a mechanism for ending the use of nuclear power by 2022; government working to meet EU commitment to identify nature preservation areas in line with the EU's Flora, Fauna, and Habitat directive. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Heavy Metals, Air Pollution-Multi-effect Protocol, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protection, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris Agreement, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping-London Convention, Marine Dumping-London Protocol, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling.
About the environment of Germany
Climate We have temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind
Revenue from forest resources 0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)
Revenue from coal 0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)
Waste and recycling Municipal solid waste generated annually: 51.046 million tons (2015 est.)
Total renewable water resources 154 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)
Major rivers (by length in km) Donau (Danube) river source (shared with Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania [m]) - 2,888 km; Elbe river mouth (shared with Czechia [s]) - 1,252 km; Rhein (Rhine) (shared with Switzerland [s], France, and Netherlands [m]) - 1,233 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth
Total water withdrawal
Municipal 10.4 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)
Industrial 17.68 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)
Agricultural 400 million cubic meters (2020 est.)
Air pollutants
Particulate matter emissions 10.73 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions 727.97 megatons (2016 est.)
Methane emissions 49.92 megatons (2020 est.)
Land Use
Agricultural land 48% (2018 est.)
Agricultural land: arable land arable land: 34.1% (2018 est.)
Agricultural land: permanent crops permanent crops: 0.6% (2018 est.)
Agricultural land: permanent pasture permanent pasture: 13.3% (2018 est.)
Forest 31.8% (2018 est.)
Other 20.2% (2018 est.)
Urbanization
Urban population 77.8% of total population (2023)
Rate of urbanization 0.13% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
Major urban areas (Pop) 3.574 million BERLIN (capital), 1.788 million Hamburg, 1.576 million Munich, 1.144 million Cologne, 796,000 Frankfurt (2023).
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Germany is found in Western Europe