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Cosmo Oil
Extracting, refining, or transporting oil, gas, and coal.🇯🇵 Japan
422 thousand
🚗cars driven for a year
1.9 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e
▼falling -4%/yr
🔥 Cosmo Oil ranks #947 because it extracts and refines large quantities of oil, gas or coal.
How much of this entity's emissions could be tied to a named owner.How sure the numbers are, based on data coverage, recency and source agreement.Number of power plants or sites attributed to this entity in the Climate TRACE dataset.
Cosmo Oil, based in Japan, extracts, refines or transports oil, gas and coal. Climate TRACE attributes 1 high-emitting asset to it. Its largest tracked activities are oil refining.
1Produces fossil fuelsOil, gas and coal are extracted, processed and moved at scale.
2Methane can leakProduction and transport can release methane, a very potent short-term greenhouse gas.
3Burned downstreamWhen the fuels are used elsewhere, they release large amounts of CO₂.
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Power plants & sites behind it1 attributed asset · ownership split equally across listed owners
Asset
Sector
Ownership
Attributed
Conf.
Cosmo Oil Chiba Refinery
Fossil Fuels
100%
1.9 Mt = megatonne: one million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent
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.
Methane Exposure
Oil and gas operations can release methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than CO₂ over the short term. Leakage is often under-measured.
Improving Trajectory
Attributed emissions are falling (~4%/yr): an improving trajectory, though absolute output remains large.
No Verified Enforcement or Lobbying Record
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📈Trend▾
Improving▼ −4.2% falling
Attributed emissions are falling by about +4.2% per year. Attributed emissions, 2022–2024.
It ranks #947 mainly because its attributed assets emitted about 1.9 Mt CO₂e in 2024 (≈ 422k cars/yr).
The Climate Damage Score is driven by that absolute size on a log scale, with a -0.4-point improving adjustment.
Score breakdown
Absolute emissions
74 pts
Trend modifier
▼ −4.2% falling-0.4 pts
Data confidence
How sure the measurement is. A low score doesn't lower the polluter's rank; it just flags fuzzier data.
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What’s known
Attributed emissions: 1.9 Mt CO₂e in 2024 (≈ 422k cars/yr).
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 the measurement is. A low score doesn't lower the polluter's rank; it just flags fuzzier data.How much of this entity's emissions could be tied to a named owner. Higher means a more complete picture.