Honduras - Environment
As far as the environment of Honduras is concerned, there have been deforestation from logging and agricultural clearing; land degradation and soil erosion from overdevelopment and improper land use practices; mining activities polluting Lago de Yojoa (the country's largest source of fresh water) and other rivers and streams. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; 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 Honduras
| Climate | We have subtropical in lowlands, temperate in mountains |
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| Revenue from forest resources | |
| Revenue from coal | |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 2,162,028 tons (2016 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 92.16 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 320 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 111 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 1.18 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 18.93 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 9.81 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 7.72 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 32% (2022 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 9.1% (2022 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 5.4% (2022 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 17.5% (2022 est.) |
| Forest | 56.5% (2022 est.) |
| Other | 11.6% (2022 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 60.2% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 2.48% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 1.568 million TEGUCIGALPA (capital), 982,000 San Pedro Sula (2023). |
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