Romania - Environment
As far as the environment of Romania is concerned, there have been soil erosion, degradation, and desertification; water pollution; air pollution in south from industrial effluents; contamination of Danube delta wetlands. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Heavy Metals, Air Pollution-Multi-effect Protocol, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Antarctic-Environmental Protection, 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, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling.
About the environment of Romania
| Climate | We have temperate; cold, cloudy winters with frequent snow and fog; sunny summers with frequent showers and thunderstorms |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 0.16% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0.03% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 4.895 million tons (2015 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 212 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | Dunărea (Danube) river mouth (shared with Germany [s], Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine) - 2,888 km note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 1.09 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 3.9 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 1.43 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 13.3 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 69.26 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 27.62 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 60.7% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 39.1% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 1.9% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 19.7% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 28.7% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 10.6% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 54.7% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | -0.15% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 1.776 million BUCHAREST (capital) (2023). |
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