Uruguay - Environment
As far as the environment of Uruguay is concerned, there have been water pollution from meat packing, tannery industries; heavy metal pollution; inadequate solid and hazardous waste disposal; deforestation. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; 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 Protocol, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling.
About the environment of Uruguay
| Climate | We have warm temperate; freezing temperatures almost unknown |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 1.56% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 1,260,140 tons (2012 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 172.2 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | Rio de la Plata/Parana river mouth (shared with Brazil [s], Argentina, Paraguay) - 4,880 km; Uruguay river mouth (shared with Brazil [s] and Argentina) - 1,610 km note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 410 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 80 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 3.17 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 8.48 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 6.77 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 25.59 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 87.2% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 10.1% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 0.2% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 76.9% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 10.2% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 2.6% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 95.8% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 0.4% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 1.774 million MONTEVIDEO (capital) (2023). |
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