Ukraine - Environment
As far as the environment of Ukraine is concerned, there have been air and water pollution; land degradation; solid waste management; biodiversity loss; deforestation; radiation contamination in the northeast from 1986 accident at Chornobyl' Nuclear Power Plant. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, 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, Wetlands.
About the environment of Ukraine
| Climate | We have temperate continental; Mediterranean only on the southern Crimean coast; precipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, lesser in east and southeast; winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland; warm summers across the greater part of the country, hot in the south |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 0.34% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0.42% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 15,242,025 tons (2016 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 175.28 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | Dunay (Danube) (shared with Germany [s], Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Romania [m]) - 2,888 km; Dnipro (Dnieper) river mouth (shared with Russia [s] and Belarus) - 2,287 km; Dnister (Dniester) river source and mouth (shared with Moldova) - 1,411 km; Vistula (shared with Poland [s/m] and Belarus) - 1,213 km note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 2.77 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 4.04 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 3.06 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 13.51 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 202.25 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 63.37 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 71.2% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 56.1% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 1.5% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 13.6% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 16.8% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 12% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 70.1% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | -0.27% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 3.017 million KYIV (capital), 1.421 million Kharkiv, 1.008 million Odesa, 942,000 Dnipropetrovsk, 888,000 Donetsk (2023). |
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