SECTOR PROFILE · 2024
Agriculture
≈ 1.6 billion cars/yr7.3 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e/yr11% of global tracked
The worst emitters in agriculture: countries and companies, side-by-side.
- 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 driven for a year.
About this sector
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 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalentAnnual total49Countries ranked0Companies ranked
Top countries in this sector
1India= 196M cars/yr902 Mt CO₂eNEW2China= 153M cars/yr703 Mt CO₂eNEW3Brazil= 127M cars/yr582 Mt CO₂eNEW4USA= 103M cars/yr472 Mt CO₂eNEW5Indonesia= 91.6M cars/yr421 Mt CO₂eNEW6Pakistan= 56.8M cars/yr261 Mt CO₂eNEW7Ethiopia= 41.7M cars/yr192 Mt CO₂eNEW8Bangladesh= 31.1M cars/yr143 Mt CO₂eNEW9Argentina= 30.6M cars/yr141 Mt CO₂eNEW10Russia= 30.5M cars/yr140 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all countries (49)
11Thailand= 29.7M cars/yr137 Mt CO₂eNEW12Australia= 26.2M cars/yr121 Mt CO₂eNEW13Mexico= 24.8M cars/yr114 Mt CO₂eNEW14Canada= 24M cars/yr110 Mt CO₂eNEW15Tanzania= 21.6M cars/yr99.6 Mt CO₂eNEW16Sudan= 19.8M cars/yr91.2 Mt CO₂eNEW17Nigeria= 19.7M cars/yr90.4 Mt CO₂eNEW18Viet Nam= 19.4M cars/yr89.3 Mt CO₂eNEW19Germany= 18.2M cars/yr83.8 Mt CO₂eNEW20Colombia= 17M cars/yr78.1 Mt CO₂eNEW21UK= 16.3M cars/yr75.1 Mt CO₂eNEW22France= 14.8M cars/yr68.1 Mt CO₂eNEW23Poland= 12.8M cars/yr58.8 Mt CO₂eNEW24Mongolia= 11.7M cars/yr54 Mt CO₂eNEW25Malaysia= 10.8M cars/yr49.9 Mt CO₂eNEW26Turkey= 10.6M cars/yr48.9 Mt CO₂eNEW27Philippines= 10.5M cars/yr48.4 Mt CO₂eNEW28Japan= 9.6M cars/yr44.3 Mt CO₂eNEW29Uzbekistan= 9.6M cars/yr44 Mt CO₂eNEW30Ukraine= 9.6M cars/yr43.9 Mt CO₂eNEW31Spain= 9.2M cars/yr42.3 Mt CO₂eNEW32Venezuela= 8.8M cars/yr40.6 Mt CO₂eNEW33South Africa= 8.6M cars/yr39.6 Mt CO₂eNEW34Iran= 8.4M cars/yr38.4 Mt CO₂eNEW35Italy= 7.4M cars/yr33.8 Mt CO₂eNEW36Kazakhstan= 4.9M cars/yr22.7 Mt CO₂eNEW37Netherlands= 4.9M cars/yr22.6 Mt CO₂eNEW38South Korea= 4.1M cars/yr19 Mt CO₂eNEW39Egypt= 3.3M cars/yr15.2 Mt CO₂eNEW40Turkmenistan= 3.1M cars/yr14.1 Mt CO₂eNEW41Algeria= 2.9M cars/yr13.3 Mt CO₂eNEW42Saudi Arabia= 2.6M cars/yr11.9 Mt CO₂eNEW43Iraq= 2M cars/yr9.4 Mt CO₂eNEW44Taiwan= 698k cars/yr3.2 Mt CO₂eNEW45Libya= 653k cars/yr3 Mt CO₂eNEW46UAE= 465k cars/yr2.1 Mt CO₂eNEW47Oman= 454k cars/yr2.1 Mt CO₂eNEW48Qatar= 146k cars/yr672.2 kt CO₂eNEW49Kuwait= 124k cars/yr569.9 kt CO₂eNEW
Where this comes from
Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0