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SECTOR PROFILE · 2024
Manufacturing
≈ 2.2 billion cars/yr10.2 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e/yr15.4% of global tracked
The worst emitters in manufacturing: countries and companies, side-by-side.
- What is it?
- Heavy industry: cement, steel, chemicals, aluminium, paper and other physical-goods production.
- Why does it emit?
- Process emissions from chemistry (e.g. cement clinker) plus the fossil fuel burned to make heat.
- What’s it equivalent to?
- That’s about 2.2 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 manufacturing. Totals come from Climate TRACE’s open dataset and refresh whenever the pipeline runs.
10.2 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalentAnnual total49Countries ranked50Companies ranked
Top countries in this sector
1China= 1bn cars/yr4.7 Gt CO₂eNEW2India= 172M cars/yr790 Mt CO₂eNEW3USA= 150M cars/yr688 Mt CO₂eNEW4Russia= 69M cars/yr318 Mt CO₂eNEW5Iran= 55.2M cars/yr254 Mt CO₂eNEW6Japan= 51.9M cars/yr239 Mt CO₂eNEW7Saudi Arabia= 45.1M cars/yr207 Mt CO₂eNEW8South Korea= 38.2M cars/yr176 Mt CO₂eNEW9Indonesia= 37.8M cars/yr174 Mt CO₂eNEW10Brazil= 35.6M cars/yr164 Mt CO₂eNEW
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11Germany= 31.4M cars/yr144 Mt CO₂eNEW12UAE= 24.6M cars/yr113 Mt CO₂eNEW13Turkey= 23.3M cars/yr107 Mt CO₂eNEW14Mexico= 22.7M cars/yr104 Mt CO₂eNEW15Viet Nam= 22M cars/yr101 Mt CO₂eNEW16Canada= 19.6M cars/yr90.3 Mt CO₂eNEW17Egypt= 18M cars/yr82.8 Mt CO₂eNEW18Malaysia= 16.6M cars/yr76.5 Mt CO₂eNEW19France= 15.3M cars/yr70.4 Mt CO₂eNEW20Pakistan= 15.3M cars/yr70.4 Mt CO₂eNEW21Australia= 14.8M cars/yr68.3 Mt CO₂eNEW22Thailand= 13.7M cars/yr63 Mt CO₂eNEW23Taiwan= 12.5M cars/yr57.3 Mt CO₂eNEW24Spain= 11.3M cars/yr51.8 Mt CO₂eNEW25Poland= 10.3M cars/yr47.2 Mt CO₂eNEW26UK= 10M cars/yr45.9 Mt CO₂eNEW27Italy= 9.9M cars/yr45.6 Mt CO₂eNEW28Netherlands= 9.8M cars/yr45 Mt CO₂eNEW29South Africa= 9.4M cars/yr43.1 Mt CO₂eNEW30Qatar= 8.5M cars/yr39 Mt CO₂eNEW31Bangladesh= 8.4M cars/yr38.8 Mt CO₂eNEW32Iraq= 8.3M cars/yr38.2 Mt CO₂eNEW33Nigeria= 7.5M cars/yr34.4 Mt CO₂eNEW34Ukraine= 7.2M cars/yr33.1 Mt CO₂eNEW35Argentina= 7.1M cars/yr32.7 Mt CO₂eNEW36Kazakhstan= 7.1M cars/yr32.6 Mt CO₂eNEW37Oman= 6.9M cars/yr31.6 Mt CO₂eNEW38Venezuela= 6.5M cars/yr29.8 Mt CO₂eNEW39Algeria= 6.2M cars/yr28.5 Mt CO₂eNEW40Philippines= 5.6M cars/yr25.5 Mt CO₂eNEW41Kuwait= 5.5M cars/yr25.4 Mt CO₂eNEW42Uzbekistan= 5M cars/yr22.8 Mt CO₂eNEW43Colombia= 4.1M cars/yr18.8 Mt CO₂eNEW44Turkmenistan= 2.8M cars/yr12.9 Mt CO₂eNEW45Ethiopia= 2.2M cars/yr10.1 Mt CO₂eNEW46Libya= 1.9M cars/yr8.7 Mt CO₂eNEW47Tanzania= 1.2M cars/yr5.5 Mt CO₂eNEW48Sudan= 890k cars/yr4.1 Mt CO₂eNEW49Mongolia= 753k cars/yr3.5 Mt CO₂eNEW
Top companies in this sector
11POSCO Holdings Inc= 15.8M cars/yr72.7 Mt CO₂eNEW15Nippon Steel Corp= 14M cars/yr64.4 Mt CO₂eNEW18Angang Steel Co Ltd= 11M cars/yr50.7 Mt CO₂eNEW33JSW Steel Ltd= 7.8M cars/yr35.8 Mt CO₂eNEW36Maanshan Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 6.4M cars/yr29.2 Mt CO₂eNEW42JFE Steel Corp= 7.8M cars/yr35.8 Mt CO₂eNEW56Hunan Valin Lianyuan Iron and Steel Co Ltd= 6M cars/yr27.4 Mt CO₂eNEW62Inner Mongolia BaoTou Steel Union Co Ltd= 6.1M cars/yr28.2 Mt CO₂eNEW69Georgia-Pacific LLC= 5.6M cars/yr25.7 Mt CO₂eNEW70Baoshan Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 5.3M cars/yr24.4 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all companies (50)
71Zhangjiagang Hongchang Steel Co Ltd= 5.3M cars/yr24.2 Mt CO₂eNEW74Wuhan Iron and Steel Co Ltd= 5.5M cars/yr25.1 Mt CO₂eNEW82Novolipetsk Steel PJSC= 5.1M cars/yr23.3 Mt CO₂eNEW83Bengang Steel Plates Co Ltd= 4.8M cars/yr21.9 Mt CO₂eNEW84Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 4.6M cars/yr20.9 Mt CO₂eNEW85Dexin Steel Pte Ltd= 2.6M cars/yr11.7 Mt CO₂eNEW88Rizhao Steel Holding Group Co Ltd= 4.4M cars/yr20.3 Mt CO₂eNEW97Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC= 4.5M cars/yr20.6 Mt CO₂eNEW102Hyundai Steel Co= 4.3M cars/yr19.8 Mt CO₂eNEW105Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 4.5M cars/yr20.6 Mt CO₂eNEW107Severstal PJSC= 4.1M cars/yr19 Mt CO₂eNEW111Cleveland-Cliffs Inc= 4.2M cars/yr19.1 Mt CO₂eNEW119Tata Steel Ltd= 4M cars/yr18.4 Mt CO₂eNEW120Xinyu Iron & Steel Corp Ltd= 3.9M cars/yr17.8 Mt CO₂eNEW121Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co Ltd= 3.8M cars/yr17.3 Mt CO₂eNEW128Evraz ZSMK JSC= 3.8M cars/yr17.4 Mt CO₂eNEW129Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG= 3.8M cars/yr17.4 Mt CO₂eNEW138ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Ltd= 3.7M cars/yr17.2 Mt CO₂eNEW146Liuzhou IRON&STEEL Co Ltd= 3.6M cars/yr16.6 Mt CO₂eNEW149Shandong IRON&STEEL Group Rizhao Co Ltd= 3.3M cars/yr15.3 Mt CO₂eNEW156China Steel Corp= 3.6M cars/yr16.7 Mt CO₂eNEW159Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp= 3M cars/yr13.7 Mt CO₂eNEW161Magnitogorskiy Metallurgicheskiy Kombinat PJSC= 3.5M cars/yr15.9 Mt CO₂eNEW162Alcoa Corp= 3.3M cars/yr15.3 Mt CO₂eNEW168SGIS Songshan Co Ltd= 3M cars/yr13.8 Mt CO₂eNEW169Hebei Donghai SPECIAL Steel Group Co Ltd= 3.3M cars/yr15.2 Mt CO₂eNEW174Shanghai Meishan Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 2.8M cars/yr13 Mt CO₂eNEW188Lianfeng Steel (Zhangjiagang) Co Ltd= 2.7M cars/yr12.6 Mt CO₂eNEW195Hebei Yanshan Iron and Steel Group Co Ltd= 3M cars/yr14 Mt CO₂eNEW197Shaanxi LONG MEN IRON&STEEL Co Ltd= 2.7M cars/yr12.6 Mt CO₂eNEW207Saudi Basic Industries Corp= 2.6M cars/yr12.1 Mt CO₂eNEW213Shandong Weiqiao Aluminum and Electric Co Ltd= 3M cars/yr13.6 Mt CO₂eNEW214Cangzhou China Railway Equipment Manufacturing Materials Co Ltd= 2.8M cars/yr13 Mt CO₂eNEW217Dangote Cement PLC= 2.6M cars/yr12.1 Mt CO₂eNEW218Tata Steel Ijmuiden BV= 2.6M cars/yr12.1 Mt CO₂eNEW220Alliance Steel (M) Sdn Bhd= 1.3M cars/yr6 Mt CO₂eNEW221Zhangjiagang Rongsheng Steel-Making Co Ltd= 2.8M cars/yr12.9 Mt CO₂eNEW230Chengde Street Ltd= 2.7M cars/yr12.3 Mt CO₂eNEW236Guangxi Shenglong Metallurgical Co Ltd= 2.7M cars/yr12.3 Mt CO₂eNEW237Beijing Shougang Co Ltd= 2.7M cars/yr12.3 Mt CO₂eNEW
Where this comes from
Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0