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Buildings

4.0 Gt CO₂e/yr · 6% of global tracked · ≈ 869 million cars/yr

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

What is it? Direct fuel burned inside homes and offices for heating, hot water and cooking.
Why does it emit? Boilers and furnaces running on gas, oil or coal vent CO₂ on-site; electric use shows up under Power.
What's it equivalent to? That's about 869 million cars/yr a year.

Worst country in buildings

About this sector

Buildings accounts for 4 Gt CO₂e a year — about 6% 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 buildings. Totals come from Climate TRACE’s open dataset and refresh whenever the pipeline runs.

4 GtAnnual total49Countries ranked0Companies ranked

Top countries in this sector

1China= 167M cars/yrBuildings share769 Mt CO₂e 2USA= 133M cars/yrBuildings share613 Mt CO₂e 3India= 67.3M cars/yrBuildings share309 Mt CO₂e 4Russia= 60M cars/yrBuildings share276 Mt CO₂e 5Iran= 40.1M cars/yrBuildings share184 Mt CO₂e 6Germany= 28M cars/yrBuildings share129 Mt CO₂e 7Japan= 25.1M cars/yrBuildings share115 Mt CO₂e 8Canada= 20.2M cars/yrBuildings share93.1 Mt CO₂e 9UK= 18.5M cars/yrBuildings share84.9 Mt CO₂e 10Turkey= 15.4M cars/yrBuildings share70.8 Mt CO₂e

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11France= 14.3M cars/yrBuildings share65.7 Mt CO₂e 12Italy= 12.2M cars/yrBuildings share56.3 Mt CO₂e 13South Korea= 11.9M cars/yrBuildings share54.7 Mt CO₂e 14Nigeria= 11.2M cars/yrBuildings share51.6 Mt CO₂e 15Poland= 10.6M cars/yrBuildings share48.7 Mt CO₂e 16Brazil= 10.6M cars/yrBuildings share48.6 Mt CO₂e 17Kazakhstan= 9.3M cars/yrBuildings share42.8 Mt CO₂e 18Argentina= 9M cars/yrBuildings share41.4 Mt CO₂e 19Uzbekistan= 8.8M cars/yrBuildings share40.5 Mt CO₂e 20Turkmenistan= 8M cars/yrBuildings share36.9 Mt CO₂e 21Indonesia= 7.8M cars/yrBuildings share35.9 Mt CO₂e 22Algeria= 7.5M cars/yrBuildings share34.7 Mt CO₂e 23Pakistan= 7.5M cars/yrBuildings share34.6 Mt CO₂e 24Australia= 7.3M cars/yrBuildings share33.5 Mt CO₂e 25Mexico= 7M cars/yrBuildings share32.4 Mt CO₂e 26Spain= 6.7M cars/yrBuildings share30.7 Mt CO₂e 27South Africa= 6.2M cars/yrBuildings share28.6 Mt CO₂e 28Netherlands= 5.3M cars/yrBuildings share24.5 Mt CO₂e 29Oman= 5M cars/yrBuildings share23 Mt CO₂e 30Ethiopia= 4.8M cars/yrBuildings share22 Mt CO₂e 31Viet Nam= 4.3M cars/yrBuildings share19.6 Mt CO₂e 32Egypt= 4.2M cars/yrBuildings share19.2 Mt CO₂e 33Ukraine= 3.9M cars/yrBuildings share18 Mt CO₂e 34Bangladesh= 3.7M cars/yrBuildings share16.9 Mt CO₂e 35Philippines= 3.6M cars/yrBuildings share16.6 Mt CO₂e 36Thailand= 3.2M cars/yrBuildings share14.8 Mt CO₂e 37Colombia= 2.9M cars/yrBuildings share13.2 Mt CO₂e 38Iraq= 2.6M cars/yrBuildings share11.9 Mt CO₂e 39Taiwan= 2.3M cars/yrBuildings share10.5 Mt CO₂e 40Malaysia= 2M cars/yrBuildings share9.2 Mt CO₂e 41Tanzania= 1.7M cars/yrBuildings share7.7 Mt CO₂e 42Saudi Arabia= 1.3M cars/yrBuildings share5.9 Mt CO₂e 43Mongolia= 1.2M cars/yrBuildings share5.7 Mt CO₂e 44Venezuela= 837k cars/yrBuildings share3.8 Mt CO₂e 45Sudan= 760k cars/yrBuildings share3.5 Mt CO₂e 46Libya= 276k cars/yrBuildings share1.3 Mt CO₂e 47UAE= 276k cars/yrBuildings share1.3 Mt CO₂e 48Kuwait= 174k cars/yrBuildings share799.1 kt CO₂e 49Qatar= 108k cars/yrBuildings share498.8 kt CO₂e

Where this comes from

Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0