TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS · 2024
🇫🇷 France
World rank #24 · Europe · Same as 95.1 million cars driven for a year a year
Initials from the entity name. Click the row to open the full profile.France
95.1 million
cars driven for a year
437 Mt CO₂e
Approximate — depends on local grid.Approximate — depends on local grid.Approximate — varies by species, climate and age of tree.
falling −0.9%/yr
🔥 France ranks #24 because its economy — across power, industry, transport and agriculture — released 437 Mt 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.EuropeContinent
Climate Damage Score: 0–100. Bigger means more greenhouse gas this year. Built only from measured emissions and trend.
#24 of 250
Top emitters here
160TotalEnergies SE= 3.5M cars/yr16 Mt CO₂eClimate Damage Score: 0–100. Bigger means more greenhouse gas this year. Built only from measured emissions and trend.How this entity moved versus the previous monthly run. Up means worse; down means better.402ArcelorMittal Atlantique et Lorraine SAS= 1.7M cars/yr8 Mt CO₂eClimate Damage Score: 0–100. Bigger means more greenhouse gas this year. Built only from measured emissions and trend.How this entity moved versus the previous monthly run. Up means worse; down means better.616ArcelorMittal Méditerranée SAS= 1.1M cars/yr4.9 Mt CO₂eClimate Damage Score: 0–100. Bigger means more greenhouse gas this year. Built only from measured emissions and trend.How this entity moved versus the previous monthly run. Up means worse; down means better.1072Rhône Energies SARL= 264k cars/yr1.2 Mt CO₂eClimate Damage Score: 0–100. Bigger means more greenhouse gas this year. Built only from measured emissions and trend.How this entity moved versus the previous monthly run. Up means worse; down means better.1253Vicat SA= 244k cars/yr1.1 Mt CO₂eClimate Damage Score: 0–100. Bigger means more greenhouse gas this year. Built only from measured emissions and trend.How this entity moved versus the previous monthly run. Up means worse; down means better.
Largest sites
| Asset | Sector | Annual emissions | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles de Gaulle International Airport | Transport | 12.2 Mt | medium |
| ArcelorMittal Dunkerque steel plant | Manufacturing | 8 Mt | very low |
| ArcelorMittal Méditerranée Fos sur Mer steel plant | Manufacturing | 4.9 Mt | medium |
| Nord Department | Transport | 3.4 Mt | low |
| Total Normandy Refinery | Fossil Fuels | 2.9 Mt | medium |
| Gironde Department | Transport | 2.9 Mt | low |
| Loire-Atlantique Department | Transport | 2.8 Mt | low |
| Ille-et-Vilaine Department | Transport | 2.6 Mt | low |
| Bouches-du-Rhône Department | Transport | 2.6 Mt | low |
| Paris-Orly Airport | Transport | 2.6 Mt | medium |
| Pas-de-Calais Department | Transport | 2.5 Mt | low |
| INEOS Lavera Marseilles Refinery | Fossil Fuels | 2.4 Mt | medium |
| Finistère Department | Transport | 2.4 Mt | low |
| Haute-Garonne Department | Transport | 2.4 Mt | low |
| Seine-Maritime Department | Transport | 2.3 Mt | low |
Trend
National total, 2016–2024. Source: Climate TRACE. France is falling at −0.9% year on year.
Getting better — based on the last 9 years of measured data.
What we know · what we don't
How sure we are about the measurement. 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.
Confidence reflects how completely Climate TRACE has measured this country’s emissions; coverage shows the share of those emissions we can tie to a named owner. Both feed the 0–100 Climate Damage Score above. Untraced emissions are real — they just don’t yet have a named owner in the open datasets we use.
Where this comes from
Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0 · World Bank — population