SECTOR PROFILE · 2024
Buildings
≈ 869 million cars/yr4.0 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e/yr6% of global tracked
The worst emitters in buildings: countries and companies, side-by-side.
- 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 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 buildings. Totals come from Climate TRACE’s open dataset and refresh whenever the pipeline runs.
4 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalentAnnual total49Countries ranked0Companies ranked
Top countries in this sector
1China= 167M cars/yr769 Mt CO₂eNEW2USA= 133M cars/yr613 Mt CO₂eNEW3India= 67.3M cars/yr309 Mt CO₂eNEW4Russia= 60M cars/yr276 Mt CO₂eNEW5Iran= 40.1M cars/yr184 Mt CO₂eNEW6Germany= 28M cars/yr129 Mt CO₂eNEW7Japan= 25.1M cars/yr115 Mt CO₂eNEW8Canada= 20.2M cars/yr93.1 Mt CO₂eNEW9UK= 18.5M cars/yr84.9 Mt CO₂eNEW10Turkey= 15.4M cars/yr70.8 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all countries (49)
11France= 14.3M cars/yr65.7 Mt CO₂eNEW12Italy= 12.2M cars/yr56.3 Mt CO₂eNEW13South Korea= 11.9M cars/yr54.7 Mt CO₂eNEW14Nigeria= 11.2M cars/yr51.6 Mt CO₂eNEW15Poland= 10.6M cars/yr48.7 Mt CO₂eNEW16Brazil= 10.6M cars/yr48.6 Mt CO₂eNEW17Kazakhstan= 9.3M cars/yr42.8 Mt CO₂eNEW18Argentina= 9M cars/yr41.4 Mt CO₂eNEW19Uzbekistan= 8.8M cars/yr40.5 Mt CO₂eNEW20Turkmenistan= 8M cars/yr36.9 Mt CO₂eNEW21Indonesia= 7.8M cars/yr35.9 Mt CO₂eNEW22Algeria= 7.5M cars/yr34.7 Mt CO₂eNEW23Pakistan= 7.5M cars/yr34.6 Mt CO₂eNEW24Australia= 7.3M cars/yr33.5 Mt CO₂eNEW25Mexico= 7M cars/yr32.4 Mt CO₂eNEW26Spain= 6.7M cars/yr30.7 Mt CO₂eNEW27South Africa= 6.2M cars/yr28.6 Mt CO₂eNEW28Netherlands= 5.3M cars/yr24.5 Mt CO₂eNEW29Oman= 5M cars/yr23 Mt CO₂eNEW30Ethiopia= 4.8M cars/yr22 Mt CO₂eNEW31Viet Nam= 4.3M cars/yr19.6 Mt CO₂eNEW32Egypt= 4.2M cars/yr19.2 Mt CO₂eNEW33Ukraine= 3.9M cars/yr18 Mt CO₂eNEW34Bangladesh= 3.7M cars/yr16.9 Mt CO₂eNEW35Philippines= 3.6M cars/yr16.6 Mt CO₂eNEW36Thailand= 3.2M cars/yr14.8 Mt CO₂eNEW37Colombia= 2.9M cars/yr13.2 Mt CO₂eNEW38Iraq= 2.6M cars/yr11.9 Mt CO₂eNEW39Taiwan= 2.3M cars/yr10.5 Mt CO₂eNEW40Malaysia= 2M cars/yr9.2 Mt CO₂eNEW41Tanzania= 1.7M cars/yr7.7 Mt CO₂eNEW42Saudi Arabia= 1.3M cars/yr5.9 Mt CO₂eNEW43Mongolia= 1.2M cars/yr5.7 Mt CO₂eNEW44Venezuela= 837k cars/yr3.8 Mt CO₂eNEW45Sudan= 760k cars/yr3.5 Mt CO₂eNEW46Libya= 276k cars/yr1.3 Mt CO₂eNEW47UAE= 276k cars/yr1.3 Mt CO₂eNEW48Kuwait= 174k cars/yr799.1 kt CO₂eNEW49Qatar= 108k cars/yr498.8 kt CO₂eNEW
Where this comes from
Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0