Bulgaria - Environment
As far as the environment of Bulgaria is concerned, there have been air pollution from industrial emissions; rivers polluted from raw sewage, heavy metals, detergents; deforestation; forest damage from air pollution and resulting acid rain; soil contamination from heavy metals from metallurgical plants and industrial wastes. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Heavy Metals, Air Pollution-Multi-effect Protocol, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protection, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, 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, Marine Dumping-London Protocol, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling.
About the environment of Bulgaria
| Climate | We have temperate; cold, damp winters; hot, dry summers |
|---|---|
| Revenue from forest resources | 0.22% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0.14% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 3.011 million tons (2015 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 21.3 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | Dunav (Danube) (shared with Germany [s], Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, 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 | 840 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 3.48 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 760 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 17.29 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 41.71 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 6.77 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 46.9% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 29.9% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 1.5% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 15.5% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 36.7% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 16.4% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 76.7% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | -0.28% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 1.288 million SOFIA (capital) (2023). |
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