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TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS · 2024

🇧🇷 Brazil

World rank #6 · South America · Same as 295 million cars driven for a year

295 million
cars driven for a year
1.4 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e
rising +1.3%/yr

Brazil ranks #6 because its economy, across power, industry, transport and agriculture, released 1.4 Gt of CO₂e in 2024.

This country's place in the global league table of yearly CO₂e.Average emissions per person, per year.How much of this country's emissions traces to a named owner.World Bank, 2024.South AmericaContinent
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Climate Damage Score: 0–100. Bigger means more greenhouse gas this year. Built only from measured emissions and trend.
#6 of 250

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Top emitters here
285Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional SA= 2M cars/yrManufacturing · Brazil9.3 Mt CO₂eNEW288ArcelorMittal Tubarão Comercial SA= 2.2M cars/yrManufacturing · Brazil10.2 Mt CO₂eNEW310Ternium Brasil Ltda= 1.9M cars/yrManufacturing · Brazil8.6 Mt CO₂eNEW452Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA= 1.5M cars/yrManufacturing · Brazil6.7 Mt CO₂eNEW456Gerdau Acominas SA= 1.3M cars/yrManufacturing · Brazil6.1 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all top emitters (10)
516ArcelorMittal Brasil SA= 1.1M cars/yrManufacturing · Brazil4.9 Mt CO₂eNEW529Diamante Geração de Energia Ltda= 1.1M cars/yrPower · Brazil4.8 Mt CO₂eNEW535Eneva SA= 998k cars/yrPower · Brazil4.6 Mt CO₂eNEW656Petróleo Brasileiro SA= 941k cars/yrFossil Fuels · Brazil4.3 Mt CO₂eNEW890Petróleo Brasileiro SA= 642k cars/yrFossil Fuels · Brazil3 Mt CO₂eNEW
Largest sites
AssetSectorAnnual emissionsConfidence
São Félix do Xingu MunicipalityForestry & Land67.5 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Altamira MunicipalityForestry & Land37.1 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
São Félix do Xingu MunicipalityForestry & Land36.6 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Lábrea MunicipalityForestry & Land26.9 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
São Félix do Xingu MunicipalityForestry & Land26.3 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Apuí MunicipalityForestry & Land26 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Altamira MunicipalityForestry & Land24.5 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Itaituba MunicipalityForestry & Land20.7 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Novo Progresso MunicipalityForestry & Land20.7 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Novo Progresso MunicipalityForestry & Land20 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Lábrea MunicipalityForestry & Land19.9 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Uruará MunicipalityForestry & Land19.8 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Porto Velho MunicipalityForestry & Land19.3 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Mojuí dos Campos MunicipalityForestry & Land17.3 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Ourilândia do Norte MunicipalityForestry & Land16.7 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Trend
1.2 Gt1.4 Gt1.5 Gt20162024

National total, 2016–2024. Source: Climate TRACE.

Getting worse, based on the last 9 years of measured data.

What's known · what isn't
How sure the measurement is. A low score doesn't lower the polluter's rank; it just shows the data is fuzzier.How much of this country's emissions traces to a named owner.

Untraced emissions are real; they just don’t yet have a named owner in the open datasets in use.

Where this comes from
Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0 · World Bank · population