The Environmental Analysis in Cote d'lvoire
The Urban population in 2022 is 52.7% of total population with estimated 3.38% annual rate of urbanization change between 2020-2025.
Positive impacts
on the Environment
As of 2020, 32.7% of the land area is Forest. 9.1% of the land area was reported in 2018 as arable land, permanent crops made up 14.2%, and permanent pasture, 41.5% combined to 64.8% of land area as agricultural land.
- Cote d’Ivoire tropical along the coast, semiarid in the far north; three seasons – warm and dry (November to March), hot and dry (March to May), and hot and wet (June to October).
- As of 2017, Annual freshwater withdrawals were 1.162 billion cubic meters with 242 million for industrial use, 3.6 billion for municipal use, and 600 million for agricultural.
- 69.7 % of the population has access to electricity according to World Bank (2020) with 99% of the urban population and 51% of the rural population with access to electricity 75.6% of the energy produced by Cote d’Ivoire is through fossil fuels.
- Hydropower makes for 24.4% of the energy in Cote d’Ivoire.
- Annually, 3% of municipal solid waste is recycled.
International Environmental agreements are Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris Agreement, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping-London Convention, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling.
Negative Impacts on Environment
- Issues of Environment mainly include deforestation (most of the country’s forests – once the largest in West Africa – have been heavily logged); water pollution from sewage, and from industrial, mining, and agricultural effluents
- Co2 emissions for Cote d’Ivoire in 2020 was .2 metric tons per capita n Co2 emissions and below the continent’s average of roughly 1.2 metric ton per capita(2020). In absolute terms, Cote d’Ivoire ranked 26th emitting .2 million metric tons of CO2 emissions in Africa in 2020
- As of August 2022, Cote d’Ivoire reported a total of 1,540,831 million covid cases with 18, 500,000 of the population with at least one covid vaccine dose
- Municipal solid waste generated annually: 4,440,814 (2010) tons.
