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TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS · 2024

🇱🇾 Libya

World rank #50 · Africa · Same as 29.6 million cars driven for a year

29.6 million
cars driven for a year
136 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e
rising +8.8%/yr

Libya ranks #50 because its economy, across power, industry, transport and agriculture, released 136 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.AfricaContinent
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Climate Damage Score: 0–100. Bigger means more greenhouse gas this year. Built only from measured emissions and trend.
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Top emitters here
75General Electricity Company of Libya= 5M cars/yrPower · Libya23.1 Mt CO₂eNEW206National Oil Corp= 2.9M cars/yrFossil Fuels · Libya13.4 Mt CO₂eNEW215Harouge Oil Operations Co= 2.8M cars/yrFossil Fuels · Libya12.8 Mt CO₂eNEW216Waha Oil Co= 2.8M cars/yrFossil Fuels · Libya12.8 Mt CO₂eNEW798Libyan Iron and Steel Co= 470k cars/yrPower · Libya2.2 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all top emitters (7)
942Al Ahlia Cement Co= 347k cars/yrManufacturing · Libya1.6 Mt CO₂eNEW1226Libyan Cement Co= 191k cars/yrManufacturing · Libya876.9 kt CO₂eNEW
Largest sites
AssetSectorAnnual emissionsConfidence
Libya_Sirte_Conventional onshoreFossil Fuels36.4 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Libya_Sirte_LNGFossil Fuels8.1 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Libya_Murzuq_Conventional onshoreFossil Fuels7.5 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Tripoli DistrictTransport3.9 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentlow
Al Khums power stationPower3.7 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
North Benghazi power stationPower2.6 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Misurata power stationPower2.6 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Benghazi DistrictTransport2.4 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentlow
Libya_Sirte_Conventional onshoreFossil Fuels2.1 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Western Mountain power plantPower2.1 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Sarir power stationPower1.9 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Tobruk power stationPower1.9 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Zueitina power stationPower1.8 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Misratah DistrictTransport1.7 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentlow
Sabha 2 power plantPower1.7 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalentvery low
Trend
82.5 Mt122 Mt162 Mt20162024

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