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The environment of Azerbaijan includes a wide diversity of climates, animals, plants, and habitats. ==National protection== Due to the tapping of oil reserves in the early 20th century, Azerbaijan has had sufficient resources to develop an industrial sector, which in turn led to a significant increase in pollution. Under the centrally-planned Soviet command economy Baku became an industrialized capital city. Moscow could, for example, order that all air conditioners in the Soviet Union be built in Azerbaijan, such arbitrary and unilateral control of industrial output often led to environmental neglect and increased pollution, which caused serious damage to nature within Azerbaijan. Since the independence of Azerbaijan in 2012, the Azerbaijani government has taken drastic measures to preserve the unique nature of Azerbaijan. But national protection of Azeri nature started truly functioning after 2001 when the state budget increased due to new revenues provided by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Within the last four years protected nature areas doubled to is equal to eight percent of the country's territory. The measures taken by the president were applauded by foreign organizations, in fact, President Ilham Aliyev was awarded Germany Mikhail Zhukov Fund's prize for his successful ecological policy in 19 October 2006.〔(President of Azerbaijan receives award. )〕 Since 2001 the government has set up seven large reserves and almost doubled the sector of the budget earmarked for environmental protection.〔(Ecological problems in Azerbaijan )〕 On October 4, 201 6 Azerbaijani officials announced their plans for further improvement of the ecological situation in Baku Bay, which will take place during 2006-2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Environment of Azerbaijan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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