TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS · 2024
🇮🇷 Iran
World rank #8 · Asia · Same as 267 million cars driven for a year
267 million
cars driven for a year
1.2 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e
rising +3.2%/yr
Iran ranks #8 because its economy, across power, industry, transport and agriculture, released 1.2 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.AsiaContinent
Climate Damage Score: 0–100. Bigger means more greenhouse gas this year. Built only from measured emissions and trend.
#8 of 250
Measured territorial emissions, not a full national footprint or a legal finding. How this works · Report a correction
Top emitters here
4National Iranian Oil Co= 25.2M cars/yr116 Mt CO₂eNEW232National Iranian Oil Refining And Distribution Co= 2.4M cars/yr11.3 Mt CO₂eNEW294Hormozgan Regional Electric Co= 2M cars/yr9.1 Mt CO₂eNEW319Thermal Power Plants Holding Co= 1.6M cars/yr7.3 Mt CO₂eNEW347Mazandaran Regional Electric Co= 1.7M cars/yr7.6 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all top emitters (50)
379Ahvaz Power Generation Management Co= 1.5M cars/yr7 Mt CO₂eNEW391Tadbir Sazan Saramad= 1.1M cars/yr5.1 Mt CO₂eNEW428Mobarakeh Steel Co= 1.5M cars/yr6.8 Mt CO₂eNEW433Shahid Mohammad Montazeri Power Generation Management Co= 1.3M cars/yr6.1 Mt CO₂eNEW455Damavand Power Generation Management Co= 1.4M cars/yr6.3 Mt CO₂eNEW457Tehran Regional Electricity Co= 1.3M cars/yr6 Mt CO₂eNEW506Khorasan Regional Electric Co= 1.1M cars/yr5.2 Mt CO₂eNEW509Shazand Power Generation Co= 1.1M cars/yr4.9 Mt CO₂eNEW515Persain Gulf Fajr Energy Co= 1.1M cars/yr4.9 Mt CO₂eNEW533Montazer Ghaem Generation Management Co= 987k cars/yr4.5 Mt CO₂eNEW551Hengam Petrochemical Group= 998k cars/yr4.6 Mt CO₂eNEW570Iran Power Development Co= 932k cars/yr4.3 Mt CO₂eNEW578Kerman Regional Electric Co= 905k cars/yr4.2 Mt CO₂eNEW592Shahid Mofatteh Power Generation Co= 824k cars/yr3.8 Mt CO₂eNEW600Pars Oil and Gas Co= 809k cars/yr3.7 Mt CO₂eNEW604MAPNA Assaluyeh Power Plant Co= 823k cars/yr3.8 Mt CO₂eNEW629Sabalan Bargh Omid Co= 750k cars/yr3.4 Mt CO₂eNEW637Almahdi Aluminium Corp= 551k cars/yr2.5 Mt CO₂eNEW642Esfahan Steel Co= 710k cars/yr3.3 Mt CO₂eNEW643Persian Gulf Power Generation Co= 708k cars/yr3.3 Mt CO₂eNEW644Mobin Petrochemical Co= 706k cars/yr3.2 Mt CO₂eNEW652Azarakhsh Power Generation Co= 695k cars/yr3.2 Mt CO₂eNEW660South Isfahan Power Plant Co= 682k cars/yr3.1 Mt CO₂eNEW672Saman Semnan Power Plant Generating Company JSC= 493k cars/yr2.3 Mt CO₂eNEW684MAPNA Parand Power Generation Co= 679k cars/yr3.1 Mt CO₂eNEW685Isfahan Power Generation Management Co= 648k cars/yr3 Mt CO₂eNEW686East Azerbaijan Power Generation Management Co= 647k cars/yr3 Mt CO₂eNEW705South Fars Power Generation Management Co= 647k cars/yr3 Mt CO₂eNEW714MAPNA Tous Power Generation Co= 615k cars/yr2.8 Mt CO₂eNEW719Ghadir Electricity and Energy Investment Company PJSC= 617k cars/yr2.8 Mt CO₂eNEW722Fars Tejarat Power Generation Co= 595k cars/yr2.7 Mt CO₂eNEW723Fars Gas Power Plant Company FZE= 595k cars/yr2.7 Mt CO₂eNEW725Iran Natural Gas Liquefaction Co= 579k cars/yr2.7 Mt CO₂eNEW726Kermanshah Petrochemical Industries Co= 620k cars/yr2.9 Mt CO₂eNEW728Amir Kabir Electricity Generation & Development Co= 566k cars/yr2.6 Mt CO₂eNEW788Ofogh Tamin Energy Toos Co= 496k cars/yr2.3 Mt CO₂eNEW796Khouzestan Steel Co= 529k cars/yr2.4 Mt CO₂eNEW804Saina Gostar Pardisan Co= 498k cars/yr2.3 Mt CO₂eNEW823Zagros Kosar Power Plant Production and Management PJSC= 463k cars/yr2.1 Mt CO₂eNEW824Damavand Petrochemical Co= 463k cars/yr2.1 Mt CO₂eNEW825Persian Holding= 463k cars/yr2.1 Mt CO₂eNEW826Khuzestan Regional Electricity Co= 463k cars/yr2.1 Mt CO₂eNEW849Farab Operations and Maintenance Co= 443k cars/yr2 Mt CO₂eNEW855MAPNA Pareh Sar Power Plant Co= 459k cars/yr2.1 Mt CO₂eNEW868MAPNA Sanandaj Power Generation Co= 452k cars/yr2.1 Mt CO₂eNEW
Largest sites
| Asset | Sector | Annual emissions | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran_Zagros Foldbelt_Conventional onshore | Fossil Fuels | 170 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Iran_Widyan - North Arabian Gulf_Conventional shelf | Fossil Fuels | 16.2 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Iran_Widyan - North Arabian Gulf_Conventional onshore | Fossil Fuels | 14.4 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Theran County | Buildings | 14.3 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Iran_Zagros Foldbelt_Conventional onshore | Fossil Fuels | 14.2 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Shiraz County | Buildings | 11.4 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Mashhad County | Buildings | 10.6 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Shahid Salimi power station | Power | 7.6 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Ramin power station | Power | 7 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Bandar Abbas power station | Power | 6.9 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Mobarakeh Steel Complex Isfahan | Manufacturing | 6.8 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Iran_Amu-Dar'ya_Acid/sour gas | Fossil Fuels | 6.3 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Damavand power station | Power | 6.3 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Shahid Montazeri power station | Power | 6.1 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
| Shahid Rajaee power station | Power | 6 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent | very low |
Trend
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