Brazil - Environment
As far as the environment of Brazil is concerned, there have been deforestation in Amazon Basin destroys the habitat and endangers a multitude of plant and animal species indigenous to the area; illegal wildlife trade; illegal poaching; air and water pollution in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and several other large cities; land degradation and water pollution caused by improper mining activities; wetland degradation; severe oil spills. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Antarctic-Environmental Protection, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, 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 Convention, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling.
About the environment of Brazil
| Climate | We have mostly tropical, but temperate in south |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 0.62% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0.01% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 79,889,010 tons (2015 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 8.65 trillion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | Amazon river mouth (shared with Peru [s]) - 6,400 km; Río de la Plata/Paraná river source (shared with Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay [m]) - 4,880 km; Tocantins - 3,650 km; São Francisco - 3,180 km; Paraguay river source (shared with Argentina and Paraguay [m]) - 2,549 km; Rio Negro river mouth (shared with Colombia [s] and Venezuela) - 2,250 km; Uruguay river source (shared with Argentina and Uruguay [m]) - 1,610 km note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 16.13 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 9.51 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 41.42 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 10.94 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 462.3 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 401.83 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 32.9% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 8.6% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 0.8% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 23.5% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 61.9% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 5.2% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 87.8% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 0.87% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 22.620 million São Paulo, 13.728 million Rio de Janeiro, 6.248 million Belo Horizonte, 4.873 million BRASÍLIA (capital), 4.264 million Recife, 4.212 million Porto Alegre (2023). |
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