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Running head: ENVIRONMENT OF ETHIOPIAEnvironment of EthiopiaName of the student:Name of the university:Author note
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1ENVIRONMENT OF ETHIOPIATransportation and pollutionEthiopia is facing tremendous increase in air pollution because of the excessive amountof transportation using the street without proper emission standards of the environmentalorganization. The problem of pollution is increasing rapidly due to lack of retirement policyallotted for the vehicles. According to Alok, it was found out that 53.5% vehicles were agedmore than 20 years and 29.3% were aged more than 30 years. Most of the important pollutantsemitted from the automobiles included HC, NO2, CO2, CO and SO2. It can be recommended that the government of Ethiopia should take a strong action inmeasuring the age of all vehicles. They should impose financial penalty on those vehicles, whichare more than 10 years old. Apart from that, the government should take an initiative to keep acheck on the vehicles after every 3 months. The department for pollution control should closelysupervise all the vehicles on road and take necessary actions. Energy and electricityEthiopia has a consumption of 92% energy by the domestic appliances, which is coveredby the bio- energy. However, the amount of 9000GWh/a is generated by 96% energy and 4%wind energy. The country exports 11% of its entire energy (Mehmet Onur et al.). In contrary tothe import business, Ethiopia gets huge share of energy imported in the form of petroleum. Asthe economy of the country is growing rapidly, therefore demand for energy is also increasing.27% of the entire population in Ethiopia is only exposed to electricity grid. The people in therural areas are not willing to switch to improved cooking which is resulting in scarcity offirewood (Md Alam Hossain et al.).
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