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Who profits from the worst polluters?

Every investor in our shareholder data, ranked by total emissions exposure (stake % × the company's annual emissions, added up across every holding).

67 investors aggregated · 2.8 Gt of attributed emissions covered

About this data. Big funds like BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street hold shares on behalf of clients — they don’t run the company. State entities and individual owners with majority stakes do. We label them differently.
#InvestorTypeEmissions exposureEntities heldTop holdings
1Government of South Africa (sole shareholder)State210 MtCO₂e/yr1Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd (100%)
2Government of India (President of India)State167 MtCO₂e/yr1NTPC Ltd (51.1%)
3Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO, majority state-owned)State166 MtCO₂e/yr5Korea Western Power Co Ltd (100%) · Korea Southern Power Co Ltd (100%) · Korea East-West Power Co Ltd (100%)
4Public Investment Fund (Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund)Sovereign wealth157 MtCO₂e/yr2Saudi Electricity Co (74.3%) · Saudi Arabian Oil Co (16%)
5Government of Saudi Arabia (direct)State126 MtCO₂e/yr2Saudi Arabian Oil Co (82.2%) · Saline Water Conversion Corp Corp (100%)
6Government of Iran (sole owner)State116 MtCO₂e/yr1National Iranian Oil Co (100%)
7Domestic mutual funds and LIC (combined)Institutional98.1 MtCO₂e/yr1NTPC Ltd (30%)
8Government of Taiwan (≈97%)State89.3 MtCO₂e/yr1Taiwan Power Co (97%)
9Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (state holding company)State88.1 MtCO₂e/yr1Kuwait Oil Company Ltd (100%)
10Government of Iraq (sole authority)State84.4 MtCO₂e/yr1Ministry of Electricity (Iraq) (100%)
11Gazprom Energoholding (Gazprom subsidiary)State68.5 MtCO₂e/yr2OGK-2 PJSC (77.9%) · Mosenergo PJSC (53.5%)
12TEPCO Fuel & Power (subsidiary of TEPCO Holdings)Institutional62.4 MtCO₂e/yr1JERA Co Inc (50%)
13Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc.Institutional62.4 MtCO₂e/yr1JERA Co Inc (50%)
14Government of Indonesia (sole shareholder)State60.5 MtCO₂e/yr2PT PLN (Persero) (100%) · PT Pertamina (Persero) PT (100%)
15Government of Mexico (sole shareholder)State58.4 MtCO₂e/yr1Comisión Federal de Electricidad EPE (100%)
16Government of Kuwait (sole authority)State54.2 MtCO₂e/yr1Ministry of Electricity and Water and Renewable Energy (Kuwait) (100%)
17Siberian Generating Company (SGK), part of SUEKInstitutional53.6 MtCO₂e/yr1Kuzbassenergo JSC (100%)
18Adani family promoter holdings (via Adani Enterprises and trusts)Individual52.7 MtCO₂e/yr1Adani Power Ltd (71%)
19State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC)State47.1 MtCO₂e/yr1China National Petroleum Corp (100%)
20MSEB Holding Company Ltd (Government of Maharashtra)State42.8 MtCO₂e/yr1Maharashtra State Power Generation Co Ltd (100%)
21Government of Venezuela (sole shareholder)State40.3 MtCO₂e/yr1Petróleos de Venezuela SA (100%)
22Foreign institutional investors (combined)Institutional39.2 MtCO₂e/yr1NTPC Ltd (12%)
23China National Petroleum Corporation (SASAC)State39 MtCO₂e/yr1PetroChina Co Ltd (80.3%)
24PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA (majority Polish state)State36.1 MtCO₂e/yr1PGE Górnictwo i Energetyka Konwencjonalna SA (100%)
25JFE Holdings, Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 5411.T)Institutional35.8 MtCO₂e/yr1JFE Steel Corp (100%)
26Uniper SE (legal owner, ≈83.7%) — under Russian Federal Property Agency temporary management since 2023Institutional35.7 MtCO₂e/yr1Unipro PJSC (83.7%)
27Government of Thailand (sole shareholder, via Ministry of Finance)State35.2 MtCO₂e/yr1Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (100%)
28RWE AG (Frankfurt: RWE.DE)Institutional35.2 MtCO₂e/yr1RWE Power AG (100%)
29Government of Algeria (sole shareholder)State34.8 MtCO₂e/yr1Sonatrach SpA (100%)
30Ansteel Group Corporation (SASAC, central state)State34.1 MtCO₂e/yr1Angang Steel Co Ltd (67.3%)
31Government of Turkmenistan (sole authority)State32.9 MtCO₂e/yr1Turkmenenergo (100%)
32Government of Andhra Pradesh (sole shareholder)State31.8 MtCO₂e/yr1Andhra Pradesh Power Development Co Ltd (100%)
33EP Energy a.s. (subsidiary of EPH, controlled by Daniel Křetínský and Patrik Tkáč)Institutional30.2 MtCO₂e/yr1Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG (100%)
34Government of Uttar Pradesh (via UPPCL)State29.7 MtCO₂e/yr1U.P. Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (100%)
35Government of Rajasthan (sole shareholder)State28.3 MtCO₂e/yr1Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (100%)
36Sonelgaz (wholly owned by the Government of Algeria)State28.1 MtCO₂e/yr1Société Algérienne de Production de l'Electricité SpA (100%)
37Government of Abu Dhabi (sole shareholder)State28.1 MtCO₂e/yr1Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (100%)
38Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. (Hunan SASAC majority; ArcelorMittal minority)State27.4 MtCO₂e/yr1Hunan Valin Lianyuan Iron and Steel Co Ltd (100%)
39Naveen Jindal and OP Jindal Group promoter entitiesIndividual24.5 MtCO₂e/yr1Jindal Steel Ltd (60.6%)
40China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC Group, SASAC)State21.5 MtCO₂e/yr1CNOOC Ltd (64.4%)
41Inter RAO Capital (treasury)Institutional18.6 MtCO₂e/yr1Inter RAO – Electric Power Generation JSC (29.4%)
42The Master Trust Bank of Japan (trust accounts)Institutional18.6 MtCO₂e/yr3Nippon Steel Corp (14%) · Electric Power Development Co Ltd (15.4%) · Tohoku Electric Power Co Inc (13%)
43Rosneftegaz (state)State17.4 MtCO₂e/yr1Inter RAO – Electric Power Generation JSC (27.6%)
44JSW Group promoter holdings (Sajjan Jindal family entities)Individual16 MtCO₂e/yr1JSW Steel Ltd (44.8%)
45Baotou Iron and Steel (Group) Company (Inner Mongolia SASAC)State14.1 MtCO₂e/yr1Inner Mongolia BaoTou Steel Union Co Ltd (50%)
46Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (state-controlled bank)State13.9 MtCO₂e/yr1Eni SpA (28.5%)
47Magang (Group) Holding Co., Ltd. (controlled by China Baowu, SASAC)State13.3 MtCO₂e/yr1Maanshan Iron & Steel Co Ltd (45.5%)
48Saudi AramcoState12.8 MtCO₂e/yr1Saudi Electricity Co (6.9%)
49MMC Corporation BerhadInstitutional10.3 MtCO₂e/yr1Malakoff Corporation Bhd (37.6%)
50Berkshire HathawayInstitutional9.4 MtCO₂e/yr1Occidental Petroleum Corp (28%)
51Vagit Alekperov (founder, beneficial owner via holding structures)Individual9 MtCO₂e/yr1LUKOIL PJSC (28.3%)
52Reliance Infrastructure (Anil Ambani group)Institutional9 MtCO₂e/yr1Reliance Power Ltd (24%)
53City of Moscow (Department of City Property)State8.4 MtCO₂e/yr1Mosenergo PJSC (26.5%)
54Formosa Plastics CorporationInstitutional8.2 MtCO₂e/yr1Formosa Petrochemical Corp (26.5%)
55Nan Ya Plastics CorporationInstitutional7.7 MtCO₂e/yr1Formosa Petrochemical Corp (24.7%)
56BlackRockInstitutional7.7 MtCO₂e/yr3Repsol SA (5.4%) · Occidental Petroleum Corp (7.5%) · BP PLC (9%)
57Custody Bank of Japan (trust accounts)Institutional7.4 MtCO₂e/yr3Nippon Steel Corp (6%) · Electric Power Development Co Ltd (5.5%) · Tohoku Electric Power Co Inc (5%)
58Formosa Chemicals & Fibre CorporationInstitutional7.2 MtCO₂e/yr1Formosa Petrochemical Corp (23.1%)
59FSK EES (Federal Grid, state)State5.4 MtCO₂e/yr1Inter RAO – Electric Power Generation JSC (8.6%)
60JFE Steel Corporation (Japan)Institutional5.4 MtCO₂e/yr1JSW Steel Ltd (15%)
61National Pension Service of KoreaSovereign wealth4.9 MtCO₂e/yr1POSCO Holdings Inc (6.7%)
62Vanguard GroupInstitutional4.6 MtCO₂e/yr2Occidental Petroleum Corp (9.5%) · BP PLC (5%)
63BlackRock Fund AdvisorsInstitutional3.8 MtCO₂e/yr1POSCO Holdings Inc (5.2%)
64Leonid Fedun (co-founder, beneficial owner)Individual3 MtCO₂e/yr1LUKOIL PJSC (9.3%)
65Employees Provident Fund (Malaysia)State2.5 MtCO₂e/yr1Malakoff Corporation Bhd (9%)
66Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF, direct)State2.1 MtCO₂e/yr1Eni SpA (4.3%)
67Sacyr S.A.Institutional1.5 MtCO₂e/yr1Repsol SA (3.1%)

Why we publish this

Holding shares in a high-emitting company isn't proof of wrongdoing or control. We just add up shareholdings that are already public in annual reports and exchange filings, so you can see who carries the biggest exposure to global emissions.

Attributed emissions = stake % × the company's annual emissions, summed across every holding. Stakes change. Check the linked filings for the latest figures.

Filings via Wikipedia and the annual reports linked on each entity page. Emissions from Climate TRACE (CC BY 4.0). Revenue shown for context, not scored. Revenue known for 48/67.