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Manufacturing

10.2 Gt CO₂e/yr · 15.4% of global tracked · ≈ 2.2 billion cars/yr

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

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/yr a year.

Worst country in manufacturing

Worst company in manufacturing

POSCO Holdings Inc

About this sector

Manufacturing accounts for 10.2 Gt CO₂e a year — about 15.4% 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 manufacturing. Totals come from Climate TRACE’s open dataset and refresh whenever the pipeline runs.

10.2 GtAnnual total49Countries ranked50Companies ranked

Top countries in this sector

1China= 1bn cars/yrManufacturing share4.7 Gt CO₂e 2India= 172M cars/yrManufacturing share790 Mt CO₂e 3USA= 150M cars/yrManufacturing share688 Mt CO₂e 4Russia= 69M cars/yrManufacturing share318 Mt CO₂e 5Iran= 55.2M cars/yrManufacturing share254 Mt CO₂e 6Japan= 51.9M cars/yrManufacturing share239 Mt CO₂e 7Saudi Arabia= 45.1M cars/yrManufacturing share207 Mt CO₂e 8South Korea= 38.2M cars/yrManufacturing share176 Mt CO₂e 9Indonesia= 37.8M cars/yrManufacturing share174 Mt CO₂e 10Brazil= 35.6M cars/yrManufacturing share164 Mt CO₂e

Show all countries (49)

11Germany= 31.4M cars/yrManufacturing share144 Mt CO₂e 12UAE= 24.6M cars/yrManufacturing share113 Mt CO₂e 13Turkey= 23.3M cars/yrManufacturing share107 Mt CO₂e 14Mexico= 22.7M cars/yrManufacturing share104 Mt CO₂e 15Viet Nam= 22M cars/yrManufacturing share101 Mt CO₂e 16Canada= 19.6M cars/yrManufacturing share90.3 Mt CO₂e 17Egypt= 18M cars/yrManufacturing share82.8 Mt CO₂e 18Malaysia= 16.6M cars/yrManufacturing share76.5 Mt CO₂e 19France= 15.3M cars/yrManufacturing share70.4 Mt CO₂e 20Pakistan= 15.3M cars/yrManufacturing share70.4 Mt CO₂e 21Australia= 14.8M cars/yrManufacturing share68.3 Mt CO₂e 22Thailand= 13.7M cars/yrManufacturing share63 Mt CO₂e 23Taiwan= 12.5M cars/yrManufacturing share57.3 Mt CO₂e 24Spain= 11.3M cars/yrManufacturing share51.8 Mt CO₂e 25Poland= 10.3M cars/yrManufacturing share47.2 Mt CO₂e 26UK= 10M cars/yrManufacturing share45.9 Mt CO₂e 27Italy= 9.9M cars/yrManufacturing share45.6 Mt CO₂e 28Netherlands= 9.8M cars/yrManufacturing share45 Mt CO₂e 29South Africa= 9.4M cars/yrManufacturing share43.1 Mt CO₂e 30Qatar= 8.5M cars/yrManufacturing share39 Mt CO₂e 31Bangladesh= 8.4M cars/yrManufacturing share38.8 Mt CO₂e 32Iraq= 8.3M cars/yrManufacturing share38.2 Mt CO₂e 33Nigeria= 7.5M cars/yrManufacturing share34.4 Mt CO₂e 34Ukraine= 7.2M cars/yrManufacturing share33.1 Mt CO₂e 35Argentina= 7.1M cars/yrManufacturing share32.7 Mt CO₂e 36Kazakhstan= 7.1M cars/yrManufacturing share32.6 Mt CO₂e 37Oman= 6.9M cars/yrManufacturing share31.6 Mt CO₂e 38Venezuela= 6.5M cars/yrManufacturing share29.8 Mt CO₂e 39Algeria= 6.2M cars/yrManufacturing share28.5 Mt CO₂e 40Philippines= 5.6M cars/yrManufacturing share25.5 Mt CO₂e 41Kuwait= 5.5M cars/yrManufacturing share25.4 Mt CO₂e 42Uzbekistan= 5M cars/yrManufacturing share22.8 Mt CO₂e 43Colombia= 4.1M cars/yrManufacturing share18.8 Mt CO₂e 44Turkmenistan= 2.8M cars/yrManufacturing share12.9 Mt CO₂e 45Ethiopia= 2.2M cars/yrManufacturing share10.1 Mt CO₂e 46Libya= 1.9M cars/yrManufacturing share8.7 Mt CO₂e 47Tanzania= 1.2M cars/yrManufacturing share5.5 Mt CO₂e 48Sudan= 890k cars/yrManufacturing share4.1 Mt CO₂e 49Mongolia= 753k cars/yrManufacturing share3.5 Mt CO₂e

Top companies in this sector

11POSCO Holdings Inc= 15.8M cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea72.7 Mt CO₂e 15Nippon Steel Corp= 14M cars/yrManufacturing · Japan64.4 Mt CO₂e 18Angang Steel Co Ltd= 11M cars/yrManufacturing · China50.7 Mt CO₂e 33JSW Steel Ltd= 7.8M cars/yrManufacturing · India35.8 Mt CO₂e 36Maanshan Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 6.4M cars/yrManufacturing · China29.2 Mt CO₂e 42JFE Steel Corp= 7.8M cars/yrManufacturing · Japan35.8 Mt CO₂e 56Hunan Valin Lianyuan Iron and Steel Co Ltd= 6M cars/yrManufacturing · China27.4 Mt CO₂e 62Inner Mongolia BaoTou Steel Union Co Ltd= 6.1M cars/yrManufacturing · China28.2 Mt CO₂e 69Georgia-Pacific LLC= 5.6M cars/yrManufacturing · USA25.7 Mt CO₂e 70Baoshan Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 5.3M cars/yrManufacturing · China24.4 Mt CO₂e

Show all companies (50)

71Zhangjiagang Hongchang Steel Co Ltd= 5.3M cars/yrManufacturing · China24.2 Mt CO₂e 74Wuhan Iron and Steel Co Ltd= 5.5M cars/yrManufacturing · China25.1 Mt CO₂e 82Novolipetsk Steel PJSC= 5.1M cars/yrManufacturing · Russia23.3 Mt CO₂e 83Bengang Steel Plates Co Ltd= 4.8M cars/yrManufacturing · China21.9 Mt CO₂e 84Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 4.6M cars/yrManufacturing · China20.9 Mt CO₂e 85Dexin Steel Pte Ltd= 2.6M cars/yrManufacturing · Indonesia11.7 Mt CO₂e 88Rizhao Steel Holding Group Co Ltd= 4.4M cars/yrManufacturing · China20.3 Mt CO₂e 97Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC= 4.5M cars/yrManufacturing · UAE20.6 Mt CO₂e 102Hyundai Steel Co= 4.3M cars/yrManufacturing · South Korea19.8 Mt CO₂e 105Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 4.5M cars/yrManufacturing · China20.6 Mt CO₂e 107Severstal PJSC= 4.1M cars/yrManufacturing · Russia19 Mt CO₂e 111Cleveland-Cliffs Inc= 4.2M cars/yrManufacturing · USA19.1 Mt CO₂e 119Tata Steel Ltd= 4M cars/yrManufacturing · India18.4 Mt CO₂e 120Xinyu Iron & Steel Corp Ltd= 3.9M cars/yrManufacturing · China17.8 Mt CO₂e 121Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co Ltd= 3.8M cars/yrManufacturing · China17.3 Mt CO₂e 128Evraz ZSMK JSC= 3.8M cars/yrManufacturing · Russia17.4 Mt CO₂e 129Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG= 3.8M cars/yrManufacturing · Germany17.4 Mt CO₂e 138ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Ltd= 3.7M cars/yrManufacturing · India17.2 Mt CO₂e 146Liuzhou IRON&STEEL Co Ltd= 3.6M cars/yrManufacturing · China16.6 Mt CO₂e 149Shandong IRON&STEEL Group Rizhao Co Ltd= 3.3M cars/yrManufacturing · China15.3 Mt CO₂e 156China Steel Corp= 3.6M cars/yrManufacturing · Taiwan16.7 Mt CO₂e 159Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp= 3M cars/yrManufacturing · Viet Nam13.7 Mt CO₂e 161Magnitogorskiy Metallurgicheskiy Kombinat PJSC= 3.5M cars/yrManufacturing · Russia15.9 Mt CO₂e 162Alcoa Corp= 3.3M cars/yrManufacturing · Australia15.3 Mt CO₂e 168SGIS Songshan Co Ltd= 3M cars/yrManufacturing · China13.8 Mt CO₂e 169Hebei Donghai SPECIAL Steel Group Co Ltd= 3.3M cars/yrManufacturing · China15.2 Mt CO₂e 174Shanghai Meishan Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 2.8M cars/yrManufacturing · China13 Mt CO₂e 188Lianfeng Steel (Zhangjiagang) Co Ltd= 2.7M cars/yrManufacturing · China12.6 Mt CO₂e 195Hebei Yanshan Iron and Steel Group Co Ltd= 3M cars/yrManufacturing · China14 Mt CO₂e 197Shaanxi LONG MEN IRON&STEEL Co Ltd= 2.7M cars/yrManufacturing · China12.6 Mt CO₂e 207Saudi Basic Industries Corp= 2.6M cars/yrManufacturing · Saudi Arabia12.1 Mt CO₂e 213Shandong Weiqiao Aluminum and Electric Co Ltd= 3M cars/yrManufacturing · China13.6 Mt CO₂e 214Cangzhou China Railway Equipment Manufacturing Materials Co Ltd= 2.8M cars/yrManufacturing · China13 Mt CO₂e 217Dangote Cement PLC= 2.6M cars/yrManufacturing · Nigeria12.1 Mt CO₂e 218Tata Steel Ijmuiden BV= 2.6M cars/yrManufacturing · Netherlands12.1 Mt CO₂e 220Alliance Steel (M) Sdn Bhd= 1.3M cars/yrManufacturing · Malaysia6 Mt CO₂e 221Zhangjiagang Rongsheng Steel-Making Co Ltd= 2.8M cars/yrManufacturing · China12.9 Mt CO₂e 230Chengde Street Ltd= 2.7M cars/yrManufacturing · China12.3 Mt CO₂e 236Guangxi Shenglong Metallurgical Co Ltd= 2.7M cars/yrManufacturing · China12.3 Mt CO₂e 237Beijing Shougang Co Ltd= 2.7M cars/yrManufacturing · China12.3 Mt CO₂e

Where this comes from

Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0