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Initials from the entity name. Click the row to open the full profile.POSCO Holdings IncHeavy industry: steel, cement, chemicals, aluminium. South KoreaOfficial site ↗
15.8 million
cars driven for a year
72.7 Mt CO₂e
Approximate — depends on local grid.Approximate — depends on local grid.Approximate — varies by species, climate and age of tree.
flat year-on-year

🔥 POSCO Holdings Inc ranks #11 because its heavy-industry plants (steel, cement, chemicals) release CO₂ in their core processes.

How much of this entity's emissions could be tied to a named owner.How sure we are about the numbers — based on data coverage, recency and source agreement.Number of power plants or sites attributed to this entity in the Climate TRACE dataset.
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POSCO Holdings Inc, based in Republic of Korea, runs heavy industry such as steel, cement, chemicals or aluminium. Climate TRACE attributes 6 high-emitting assets to it. Its largest tracked activities are steel making and electricity generation.

High-temperature heatIndustrial furnaces burn large amounts of fuel for process heat.
Process emissionsSome reactions (e.g. making cement clinker) release CO₂ directly, on top of fuel use.
Traps heatThe combined CO₂ adds to global warming.
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Power plants & sites behind it6 attributed assets · ownership split equally across listed owners

AssetSectorOwnershipAttributedConf.
POSCO Gwangyang steel plantManufacturing100%38.5 Mtmedium
POSCO Pohang steel plantManufacturing100%29.1 Mtmedium
KOMIPO Incheon power stationPower50%3.4 Mtvery low
Pohang steel works power stationPower100%754.1 ktvery low
Gwangyang steelworks power stationPower100%661 ktvery low
Chuncheon CHP power stationPower33%271 ktvery low
Where this comes from
Climate TRACE — asset-level emissions & ownership · CC BY 4.0
Manufacturing · reference year 2024
Who profits

Hand-curated shareholder, revenue and investor context from primary public sources. This data is shown alongside — but is not used to compute — the Climate Damage Score.

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Visit POSCO Holdings Inc.
publicListed: 005490.KSHQ Republic of Korea

Revenue

$60BUSD · FY2023

Source: Wikipedia — POSCO Holdings (KRW ~77 trillion)

Emissions intensity

1.21MtCO₂e / $1bn revenue

Below the curated-sample median (2.02 Mt/$bn) — fewer emissions per dollar of revenue than the typical large emitter we have data for.

Top shareholders & investors

  • National Pension Service of Korea6.7%state
  • BlackRock Fund Advisors5.2%institutional
  • Treasury and public free float (combined)88%public

Source: primary public filings via Wikipedia. Stakes can change; see filings for the latest.

Privatised since 2000; widely held with no controlling shareholder. National Pension Service is the largest single owner.

How it's allowed

Signals below are derived from emissions data and ownership coverage only — not from any legal or regulatory finding.

Permitted Emissions
These emissions appear to occur under existing permits and regulations. Operating legally is not the same as operating cleanly.
Hard-to-Abate Process Emissions
Cement, steel and similar processes emit CO₂ from the chemical reaction itself, not only from burning fuel — making them hard to fully decarbonise.
Rising Emissions Trend
Attributed emissions are rising (~2%/yr), moving in the wrong direction.
No Verified Enforcement or Lobbying Record
This dataset contains no verified enforcement actions, lobbying records, subsidies, or litigation for this entity. Absence of evidence here is not evidence of compliance or of any violation.

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Trend
Roughly flat▲ +1.6% rising
70 Mt74.3 Mt78.5 Mt20222024

Attributed emissions are roughly stable year on year. Attributed emissions, 2022–2024.

It ranks #11 mainly because its attributed assets emitted about 72.7 Mt CO₂e in 2024 (≈ 15.8M cars/yr).

The Climate Damage Score is driven by that absolute size on a log scale, with a +0.2-point flat adjustment.

Score breakdown

Absolute emissions
92 pts
Trend modifier
▲ +1.6% rising+0.2 pts
Data confidence
How sure we are about the measurement. A low score doesn't lower the polluter's rank — it just shows the data is fuzzier.

See the full methodology for how the score is built, or data & coverage for how complete the underlying numbers are.

What we know · what we don't

What we know

  • Attributed emissions: 72.7 Mt CO₂e in 2024 (≈ 15.8M cars/yr).
  • Primary sector: Manufacturing; primary country: Republic of Korea.
  • Evidence: 6 assets; ~95% ownership-attribution coverage.
  • Source: Climate TRACE (CC BY 4.0).

What we don’t

  • Exact ownership percentages — Climate TRACE lists owners but not stakes, so shared assets are split equally.
  • Indirect (supply-chain / financed / product-use) emissions are not included.
  • No PR claims, lobbying records, litigation history or policy-compliance data are included.
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 entity's emissions could be tied to a named owner. Higher means a more complete picture.