Ecuador - Environment
As far as the environment of Ecuador is concerned, there have been deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; water pollution; pollution from oil production wastes in ecologically sensitive areas of the Amazon Basin and Galapagos Islands. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Antarctic-Environmental Protection, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris Agreement, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling.
About the environment of Ecuador
| Climate | We have tropical along coast, becoming cooler inland at higher elevations; tropical in Amazonian jungle lowlands |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 0.27% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 5,297,211 tons (2015 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 442.4 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 1.29 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 550 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 8.8 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 16.55 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 41.15 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 23.51 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 29.7% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 4.7% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 5.6% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 19.4% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 38.9% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 31.4% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 64.8% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 1.62% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 3.142 million Guayaquil, 1.957 million QUITO (capital) (2023). |
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