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SECTOR PROFILE · 2024

Fluorinated Gases

≈ 378 million cars/yr1.7 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e/yr2.6% of global tracked

The worst emitters in fluorinated gases: countries and companies, side-by-side.

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What is it?
Synthetic gases used as refrigerants, propellants and insulators (HFCs, PFCs, SF₆).
Why does it emit?
Tiny leaks have outsized warming power: these molecules trap thousands of times more heat than CO₂.
What’s it equivalent to?
That’s about 378 million cars driven for a year.
Worst country in fluorinated gases
China
≈ 124 million cars/yr
571 Mt CO₂e
About this sector

The league tables below rank both the countries where this sector is largest and the companies whose biggest attributed sector is fluorinated gases. Totals come from Climate TRACE’s open dataset and refresh whenever the pipeline runs.

1.7 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalentAnnual total47Countries ranked0Companies ranked
Top countries in this sector
1China= 124M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share571 Mt CO₂eNEW2USA= 55.8M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share257 Mt CO₂eNEW3India= 18.3M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share84 Mt CO₂eNEW4Saudi Arabia= 16.1M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share74 Mt CO₂eNEW5Russia= 15.4M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share70.9 Mt CO₂eNEW6Thailand= 10M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share46.1 Mt CO₂eNEW7UAE= 6.2M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share28.5 Mt CO₂eNEW8Mexico= 5.9M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share27 Mt CO₂eNEW9Japan= 5.7M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share26.4 Mt CO₂eNEW10South Korea= 5.5M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share25.1 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all countries (47)
11Iran= 5M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share23.2 Mt CO₂eNEW12Egypt= 4.6M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share21 Mt CO₂eNEW13Indonesia= 4.6M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share20.9 Mt CO₂eNEW14Kuwait= 4.5M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share20.7 Mt CO₂eNEW15Brazil= 4.5M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share20.5 Mt CO₂eNEW16South Africa= 4.4M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share20.2 Mt CO₂eNEW17Argentina= 4.4M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share20.1 Mt CO₂eNEW18Canada= 4M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share18.3 Mt CO₂eNEW19Nigeria= 3.7M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share17.1 Mt CO₂eNEW20Italy= 3.6M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share16.5 Mt CO₂eNEW21Australia= 3.2M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share14.9 Mt CO₂eNEW22Pakistan= 2.9M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share13.5 Mt CO₂eNEW23Viet Nam= 2.7M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share12.5 Mt CO₂eNEW24UK= 2.5M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share11.4 Mt CO₂eNEW25Colombia= 2.4M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share10.8 Mt CO₂eNEW26Venezuela= 2.3M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share10.6 Mt CO₂eNEW27Turkey= 2.3M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share10.4 Mt CO₂eNEW28Germany= 2.2M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share10.2 Mt CO₂eNEW29Taiwan= 2.2M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share10 Mt CO₂eNEW30Philippines= 1.8M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share8.4 Mt CO₂eNEW31France= 1.7M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share7.9 Mt CO₂eNEW32Libya= 1.4M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share6.2 Mt CO₂eNEW33Poland= 1.2M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share5.7 Mt CO₂eNEW34Iraq= 1.2M cars/yrFluorinated Gases share5.3 Mt CO₂eNEW35Kazakhstan= 974k cars/yrFluorinated Gases share4.5 Mt CO₂eNEW36Spain= 963k cars/yrFluorinated Gases share4.4 Mt CO₂eNEW37Qatar= 896k cars/yrFluorinated Gases share4.1 Mt CO₂eNEW38Algeria= 806k cars/yrFluorinated Gases share3.7 Mt CO₂eNEW39Bangladesh= 745k cars/yrFluorinated Gases share3.4 Mt CO₂eNEW40Malaysia= 585k cars/yrFluorinated Gases share2.7 Mt CO₂eNEW41Ukraine= 579k cars/yrFluorinated Gases share2.7 Mt CO₂eNEW42Sudan= 540k cars/yrFluorinated Gases share2.5 Mt CO₂eNEW43Oman= 355k cars/yrFluorinated Gases share1.6 Mt CO₂eNEW44Netherlands= 318k cars/yrFluorinated Gases share1.5 Mt CO₂eNEW45Turkmenistan= 74.3k cars/yrFluorinated Gases share341.6 kt CO₂eNEW46Uzbekistan= 67k cars/yrFluorinated Gases share308.3 kt CO₂eNEW47Ethiopia= 182 cars/yrFluorinated Gases share838 t CO₂eNEW
Where this comes from
Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0