Austria - Environment
As far as the environment of Austria is concerned, there have been some forest degradation caused by air and soil pollution; soil pollution results from the use of agricultural chemicals; air pollution results from emissions by coal- and oil-fired power stations and industrial plants and from trucks transiting Austria between northern and southern Europe; water pollution; the Danube, as well as some of Austria’s other rivers and lakes, are threatened by pollution. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Heavy Metals, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, 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, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling.
About the environment of Austria
| Climate | We have temperate; continental, cloudy; cold winters with frequent rain and some snow in lowlands and snow in mountains; moderate summers with occasional showers |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 0.07% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 4.836 million tons (2015 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 77.7 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | Donau (Danube) (shared with Germany [s], Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, 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 | 720 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 2.7 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 720 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 11.51 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 61.45 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 6.34 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 38.4% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 16.5% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 0.8% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 21.1% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 47.2% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 14.4% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 59.5% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 0.68% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 1.975 million VIENNA (capital) (2023). |
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