Tunisia - Environment
As far as the environment of Tunisia is concerned, there have been toxic and hazardous waste disposal is ineffective and poses health risks; water pollution from raw sewage; limited natural freshwater resources; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; 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 Tunisia
| Climate | We have temperate in north with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers; desert in south |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 0.21% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 2.7 million tons (2014 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 4.62 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 820 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 60 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 2.71 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 26.52 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 29.94 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 7.89 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 64.8% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 18.3% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 15.4% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 31.1% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 6.6% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 28.6% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 70.5% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 1.34% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 2.475 million TUNIS (capital) (2023). |
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