Benin - Environment
As far as the environment of Benin is concerned, there have been inadequate supplies of potable water; water pollution; poaching threatens wildlife populations; deforestation; desertification (the spread of the desert into agricultural lands in the north is accelerated by regular droughts). 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, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling.
About the environment of Benin
| Climate | We have tropical; hot, humid in south; semiarid in north |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 2.24% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 685,936 tons (1993 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 26.39 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 150 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 30 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 60 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 31.51 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 6.48 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 5.8 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 31.3% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 22.9% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 3.5% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 4.9% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 40% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 28.7% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 50.1% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 3.74% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 285,000 PORTO-NOVO (capital) (2018); 1.253 million Abomey-Calavi, 722,000 COTONOU (seat of government) (2022). |
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