Yemen - Environment
As far as the environment of Yemen is concerned, there have been limited natural freshwater resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping-London Protocol, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands.
About the environment of Yemen
| Climate | We have mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 0.04% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 4,836,820 tons (2011 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 2.1 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 270 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 70 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 3.24 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 41.61 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 10.61 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 8.03 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 44.5% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 2.2% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 0.6% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 41.7% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 1% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 54.5% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 39.8% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 3.71% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 3.292 million SANAA (capital), 1.080 million Aden, 941,000 Taiz, 772,000 Ibb (2023). |
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