Lithuania - Environment
As far as the environment of Lithuania is concerned, there have been water pollution; air pollution; deforestation; threatened animal and plant species; chemicals and waste materials released into the environment contaminate soil and groundwater; soil degradation and erosion. 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, 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, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling.
About the environment of Lithuania
| Climate | We have transitional, between maritime and continental; wet, moderate winters and summers |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 0.31% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 1.3 million tons (2015 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 24.5 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 140 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 60 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 60 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 10.37 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 12.96 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 3.15 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 44.8% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 34.9% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 0.5% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 9.4% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 34.6% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 20.6% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 68.7% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | -0.12% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 541,000 VILNIUS (capital) (2023). |
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