Togo - Environment
As far as the environment of Togo is concerned, there have been deforestation attributable to slash-and-burn agriculture and the use of wood for fuel; very little rain forest still present and what remains is highly degraded; desertification; water pollution presents health hazards and hinders the fishing industry; air pollution increasing in urban areas. 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, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling.
About the environment of Togo
| Climate | We have tropical; hot, humid in south; semiarid in north |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 3.96% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 1,109,030 tons (2014 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 14.7 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 140 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 10 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 80 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 35.66 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 3 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 3.06 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 67.4% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 45.2% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 3.8% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 18.4% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 4.9% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 27.7% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 44.5% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 3.6% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 1.982 million LOME (capital) (2023). |
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