Serbia - Environment
As far as the environment of Serbia is concerned, there have been air pollution around Belgrade and other industrial cities; water pollution from industrial wastes dumped into the Sava which flows into the Danube; inadequate management of domestic, industrial, and hazardous waste. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Heavy Metals, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris Agreement, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping-London Convention, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands.
About the environment of Serbia
| Climate | We have in the north, continental climate (cold winters and hot, humid summers with well-distributed rainfall); in other parts, continental and Mediterranean climate (relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall and hot, dry summers and autumns) |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 0.38% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0.25% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 1.84 million tons (2015 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 162.2 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) (note - includes Kosovo) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | Dunav (Danube) (shared with Germany [s], Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania [m]) - 2,888 km note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 680 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 3.99 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 660 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 21.74 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 45.22 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 11.96 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 57.9% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 37.7% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 3.4% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 16.8% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 31.6% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 10.5% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 57.1% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 0.04% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 1.408 million BELGRADE (capital) (2023). |
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