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TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS · 2024

🇿🇦 South Africa

World rank #16 · Africa · Same as 132 million cars driven for a year a year

Initials from the entity name. Click the row to open the full profile.South Africa
132 million
cars driven for a year
609 Mt CO₂e
Approximate — depends on local grid.Approximate — depends on local grid.Approximate — varies by species, climate and age of tree.
falling −0.3%/yr

🔥 South Africa ranks #16 because its economy — across power, industry, transport and agriculture — released 609 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.
#16 of 250
Top emitters here
2Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd= 45.6M cars/yrPower · South Africa210 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.371Exxaro Coal Pty Ltd= 1.6M cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Africa7.5 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.465Sasol Mining Pty Ltd= 1.4M cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Africa6.3 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.502ArcelorMittal South Africa Ltd= 1.1M cars/yrManufacturing · South Africa4.9 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.735Sasol Synfuels Pty Ltd= 592k cars/yrPower · South Africa2.7 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.
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743Seriti Coal Pty Ltd= 623k cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Africa2.9 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.778Glencore Operations South Africa Pty Ltd= 518k cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Africa2.4 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.863Goedgevonden Coal Pty Ltd= 351k cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Africa1.6 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.1003Anglo American Inyosi Coal Pty Ltd= 321k cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Africa1.5 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.1079Anergi International Ltd= 286k cars/yrPower · South Africa1.3 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.1152Exxaro Coal Mpumalanga Pty Ltd= 254k cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Africa1.2 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.1199Seriti Power Pty Ltd= 307k cars/yrFossil Fuels · South Africa1.4 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.1362Sasol= 125k cars/yrManufacturing · South Africa575.7 kt 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
AssetSectorAnnual emissionsConfidence
Medupi power stationPower21.3 Mtmedium
Majuba power stationPower20.9 Mtvery low
Lethabo power stationPower19.2 Mtvery low
Matla power stationPower19.1 Mtvery low
Kendal power stationPower18.4 Mtvery low
Kusile power stationPower17.8 Mtmedium
Matimba power stationPower17.8 Mtvery low
Duvha power stationPower17.8 Mtvery low
Kriel power stationPower15.2 Mtvery low
Tutuka power stationPower13.9 Mtvery low
Arnot power stationPower10.1 Mtvery low
Grootegeluk Coal MineFossil Fuels7.5 Mtvery low
Hendrina power stationPower7.5 Mtvery low
City of Johannesburg District MunicipalityTransport7 Mtlow
Camden power stationPower6.9 Mthigh
Trend
584 Mt644 Mt704 Mt20162024

National total, 2016–2024. Source: Climate TRACE. South Africa is falling at −0.3% 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