Tajikistan - Environment
As far as the environment of Tajikistan is concerned, there have been areas of high air pollution from motor vehicles and industry; water pollution from agricultural runoff and disposal of untreated industrial waste and sewage; poor management of water resources; soil erosion; increasing levels of soil salinity. 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, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands.
About the environment of Tajikistan
Climate We have mid-latitude continental, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid to polar in Pamir Mountains
Revenue from forest resources 1.12% of GDP (2018 est.)
Revenue from coal 0.54% of GDP (2018 est.)
Waste and recycling Municipal solid waste generated annually: 1,787,400 tons (2013 est.)
Total renewable water resources 21.91 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)
Major rivers (by length in km) Syr Darya (shared with Kyrgyzstan [s], Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan [m]) - 3,078 km; Amu Darya river source (shared with Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan [m]) - 2,620 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth
Total water withdrawal
Municipal 910 million cubic meters (2020 est.)
Industrial 1.61 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)
Agricultural 7.38 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)
Air pollutants
Particulate matter emissions 53.65 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions 5.31 megatons (2016 est.)
Methane emissions 4.87 megatons (2020 est.)
Land Use
Agricultural land 34.7% (2018 est.)
Agricultural land: arable land arable land: 6.1% (2018 est.)
Agricultural land: permanent crops permanent crops: 0.9% (2018 est.)
Agricultural land: permanent pasture permanent pasture: 27.7% (2018 est.)
Forest 2.9% (2018 est.)
Other 62.4% (2018 est.)
Urbanization
Urban population 28.2% of total population (2023)
Rate of urbanization 2.73% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
Major urban areas (Pop) 987,000 DUSHANBE (capital) (2023).
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Tajikistan is found in Central Asia