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SECTOR PROFILE · 2024

Forestry & Land

≈ 1.3 billion cars/yr6.2 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e/yr9.3% of global tracked

The worst emitters in forestry & land: countries and companies, side-by-side.

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What is it?
Carbon flowing in and out of forests, soils, wetlands and other natural sinks.
Why does it emit?
Clearing, burning or degrading land releases stored carbon; healthy ecosystems absorb it.
What’s it equivalent to?
That’s about 1.3 billion cars driven for a year.
Worst country in forestry & land
Russia
≈ 394 million cars/yr
1.8 Gt 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 forestry & land. Totals come from Climate TRACE’s open dataset and refresh whenever the pipeline runs.

6.2 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalentAnnual total28Countries ranked0Companies ranked
Top countries in this sector
1Russia= 394M cars/yrForestry & Land share1.8 Gt CO₂eNEW2Colombia= 155M cars/yrForestry & Land share715 Mt CO₂eNEW3Australia= 105M cars/yrForestry & Land share484 Mt CO₂eNEW4India= 89.8M cars/yrForestry & Land share413 Mt CO₂eNEW5Nigeria= 84.6M cars/yrForestry & Land share389 Mt CO₂eNEW6Indonesia= 63.5M cars/yrForestry & Land share292 Mt CO₂eNEW7South Africa= 50.5M cars/yrForestry & Land share233 Mt CO₂eNEW8Malaysia= 31.4M cars/yrForestry & Land share144 Mt CO₂eNEW9Japan= 28.5M cars/yrForestry & Land share131 Mt CO₂eNEW10Philippines= 20M cars/yrForestry & Land share92 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all countries (28)
11Mongolia= 17.5M cars/yrForestry & Land share80.4 Mt CO₂eNEW12Venezuela= 17.5M cars/yrForestry & Land share80.3 Mt CO₂eNEW13Mexico= 16.7M cars/yrForestry & Land share76.6 Mt CO₂eNEW14Argentina= 15M cars/yrForestry & Land share69.1 Mt CO₂eNEW15Ukraine= 12.6M cars/yrForestry & Land share58.2 Mt CO₂eNEW16Turkey= 9.4M cars/yrForestry & Land share43 Mt CO₂eNEW17Iran= 9.3M cars/yrForestry & Land share42.7 Mt CO₂eNEW18Germany= 8.3M cars/yrForestry & Land share38.1 Mt CO₂eNEW19South Korea= 5.6M cars/yrForestry & Land share25.7 Mt CO₂eNEW20Pakistan= 4.3M cars/yrForestry & Land share19.6 Mt CO₂eNEW21Uzbekistan= 1.4M cars/yrForestry & Land share6.5 Mt CO₂eNEW22Egypt= 603k cars/yrForestry & Land share2.8 Mt CO₂eNEW23Oman= 227k cars/yrForestry & Land share1 Mt CO₂eNEW24Libya= 109k cars/yrForestry & Land share502 kt CO₂eNEW25Saudi Arabia= 87.4k cars/yrForestry & Land share401.9 kt CO₂eNEW26UAE= 7.5k cars/yrForestry & Land share34.6 kt CO₂eNEW27Kuwait= 560 cars/yrForestry & Land share2.6 kt CO₂eNEW28Qatar= 130 cars/yrForestry & Land share598 t CO₂eNEW
Where this comes from
Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0