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Agriculture

7.3 Gt CO₂e/yr · 11% of global tracked · ≈ 1.6 billion cars/yr

The worst emitters in agriculture — countries and companies, side-by-side, from Climate TRACE open data.

What is it? Crop and livestock production — fields, herds, fertiliser, manure and rice paddies.
Why does it emit? Cattle burp methane, manure releases methane and nitrous oxide, fertiliser breaks down to N₂O.
What's it equivalent to? That's about 1.6 billion cars/yr a year.

Worst country in agriculture

About this sector

Agriculture accounts for 7.3 Gt CO₂e a year — about 11% of all tracked global emissions. The league tables below rank both the countries where this sector is largest and the companies whose biggest attributed sector is agriculture. Totals come from Climate TRACE’s open dataset and refresh whenever the pipeline runs.

7.3 GtAnnual total49Countries ranked0Companies ranked

Top countries in this sector

1India= 196M cars/yrAgriculture share902 Mt CO₂e 2China= 153M cars/yrAgriculture share703 Mt CO₂e 3Brazil= 127M cars/yrAgriculture share582 Mt CO₂e 4USA= 103M cars/yrAgriculture share472 Mt CO₂e 5Indonesia= 91.6M cars/yrAgriculture share421 Mt CO₂e 6Pakistan= 56.8M cars/yrAgriculture share261 Mt CO₂e 7Ethiopia= 41.7M cars/yrAgriculture share192 Mt CO₂e 8Bangladesh= 31.1M cars/yrAgriculture share143 Mt CO₂e 9Argentina= 30.6M cars/yrAgriculture share141 Mt CO₂e 10Russia= 30.5M cars/yrAgriculture share140 Mt CO₂e

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11Thailand= 29.7M cars/yrAgriculture share137 Mt CO₂e 12Australia= 26.2M cars/yrAgriculture share121 Mt CO₂e 13Mexico= 24.8M cars/yrAgriculture share114 Mt CO₂e 14Canada= 24M cars/yrAgriculture share110 Mt CO₂e 15Tanzania= 21.6M cars/yrAgriculture share99.6 Mt CO₂e 16Sudan= 19.8M cars/yrAgriculture share91.2 Mt CO₂e 17Nigeria= 19.7M cars/yrAgriculture share90.4 Mt CO₂e 18Viet Nam= 19.4M cars/yrAgriculture share89.3 Mt CO₂e 19Germany= 18.2M cars/yrAgriculture share83.8 Mt CO₂e 20Colombia= 17M cars/yrAgriculture share78.1 Mt CO₂e 21UK= 16.3M cars/yrAgriculture share75.1 Mt CO₂e 22France= 14.8M cars/yrAgriculture share68.1 Mt CO₂e 23Poland= 12.8M cars/yrAgriculture share58.8 Mt CO₂e 24Mongolia= 11.7M cars/yrAgriculture share54 Mt CO₂e 25Malaysia= 10.8M cars/yrAgriculture share49.9 Mt CO₂e 26Turkey= 10.6M cars/yrAgriculture share48.9 Mt CO₂e 27Philippines= 10.5M cars/yrAgriculture share48.4 Mt CO₂e 28Japan= 9.6M cars/yrAgriculture share44.3 Mt CO₂e 29Uzbekistan= 9.6M cars/yrAgriculture share44 Mt CO₂e 30Ukraine= 9.6M cars/yrAgriculture share43.9 Mt CO₂e 31Spain= 9.2M cars/yrAgriculture share42.3 Mt CO₂e 32Venezuela= 8.8M cars/yrAgriculture share40.6 Mt CO₂e 33South Africa= 8.6M cars/yrAgriculture share39.6 Mt CO₂e 34Iran= 8.4M cars/yrAgriculture share38.4 Mt CO₂e 35Italy= 7.4M cars/yrAgriculture share33.8 Mt CO₂e 36Kazakhstan= 4.9M cars/yrAgriculture share22.7 Mt CO₂e 37Netherlands= 4.9M cars/yrAgriculture share22.6 Mt CO₂e 38South Korea= 4.1M cars/yrAgriculture share19 Mt CO₂e 39Egypt= 3.3M cars/yrAgriculture share15.2 Mt CO₂e 40Turkmenistan= 3.1M cars/yrAgriculture share14.1 Mt CO₂e 41Algeria= 2.9M cars/yrAgriculture share13.3 Mt CO₂e 42Saudi Arabia= 2.6M cars/yrAgriculture share11.9 Mt CO₂e 43Iraq= 2M cars/yrAgriculture share9.4 Mt CO₂e 44Taiwan= 698k cars/yrAgriculture share3.2 Mt CO₂e 45Libya= 653k cars/yrAgriculture share3 Mt CO₂e 46UAE= 465k cars/yrAgriculture share2.1 Mt CO₂e 47Oman= 454k cars/yrAgriculture share2.1 Mt CO₂e 48Qatar= 146k cars/yrAgriculture share672.2 kt CO₂e 49Kuwait= 124k cars/yrAgriculture share569.9 kt CO₂e

Where this comes from

Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0