Greece - Environment
As far as the environment of Greece is concerned, there have been air pollution; air emissions from transport and electricity power stations; water pollution; degradation of coastal zones; loss of biodiversity in terrestrial and marine ecosystems; increasing municipal and industrial waste. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Antarctic-Environmental Protection, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, 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, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands.
About the environment of Greece
| Climate | We have temperate; mild, wet winters; hot, dry summers |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 0.01% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0.04% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 5,477,424 tons (2014 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 68.4 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 1.69 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 330 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 8.11 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 14.62 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 62.43 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 9.8 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 63.4% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 19.7% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 8.9% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 34.8% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 30.5% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 6.1% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 80.7% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 0.11% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 3.154 million ATHENS (capital), 815,000 Thessaloniki (2023). |
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