List of supporting companies according to greenhouse gas emissions

The list of producing companies according to greenhouse gas emissions sorts those producing companies with the world's highest CO ₂ equivalent potential of greenhouse gases from their production products, be it crude oil, natural gas or coal. The greenhouse gas emissions reported are based on data and estimates by the Carbon Disclosure Project and the Climate Accountability Institute of the companies with the highest greenhouse gas emissions. The list contains the absolute emissions and the percentage of global greenhouse gas emissions. The emissions are categorized according to the GHG Protocol standard of the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

The emission values ​​are the sum of certain Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions. Scope 1 emissions come from emission sources within the system boundaries under consideration; Scope 3 emissions are all other emissions that are caused by the company's activities but are not under the company's control. In order to avoid double counting in accordance with the principles of carbon accounting , only those emissions are taken into account from the scope 1 emissions that are caused by the extraction of fossil fuels. Of the Scope 3 emissions, only those resulting from the use of the products sold are used. This category typically accounts for more than 90% of the total emissions attributable to a fossil fuel company. By choosing these emission categories, the list represents a producer-oriented view of greenhouse gas emissions; Emissions are allocated to the company that produced the fossil fuels used, without taking into account the actual consumer.

The emissions are converted into CO ₂ equivalents . The percentages are the share of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (excluding land use changes and excluding methane emissions from agriculture, waste management and other non-industrial sources, but including cement production and other process-related emissions of CO ₂ and other greenhouse gases).

List (2015)

In 2015, the following companies had the highest funding potential for global emissions in millions of tons of CO ₂ equivalents (CO ₂ -eq).

rank	Companies	country	Ownership	Emissions	World share in percent
1	Saudi Aramco	Saudi Arabia	State	1,951	4.6
2	Gazprom	Russia	State	1,138	2.7
3	National Iranian Oil Company	Iran	State	1,036	2.4
4th	Coal India	India	State	1,025	2.4
5	China Shenhua Energy	People's Republic of China	State	1,001	2.4
6th	Rosneft	Russia	State	777	1.8
7th	China National Petroleum Corporation	People's Republic of China	State	625	1.5
8th	Abu Dhabi National Oil Company	United Arab Emirates	State	584	1.4
9	ExxonMobil	United States	Private	577	1.4
10	PEMEX	Mexico	State	530	1.3
11	Royal Dutch Shell	Netherlands United Kingdom	Private	508	1.2
12	Sonatrach	Algeria	State	492	1.2
13	Kuwait Petroleum Corporation	Kuwait	State	478	1.1
14th	BP	United Kingdom	Private	448	1.1
15th	Qatar Petroleum	Qatar	State	414	1.0
16	Petróleos de Venezuela	Venezuela	State	398	0.9
17th	Peabody Energy	United States	Private	397	0.9
18th	Iraq National Oil Company	Iraq	State	391	0.9
19th	Petrobras	Brazil	State	382	0.9
20th	Chevron Corporation	United States	Private	377	0.9
21st	Datong Coal Mining	People's Republic of China	State	365	0.9
22nd	China National Coal	People's Republic of China	State	350	0.8
23	Petronas	Malaysia	State	340	0.8
24	Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation	Nigeria	State	329	0.8
25th	Lukoil	Russia	Private	328	0.8
26th	Glencore	Switzerland	Private	322	0.8
27	BHP Group	Australia United Kingdom	Private	317	0.7
27	Shanxi Coking Coal	People's Republic of China	State	317	0.7
29	Shandong Energy	People's Republic of China	State	314	0.7
30th	Total	France	Private	311	0.7
31	Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry	People's Republic of China	State	296	0.7
32	Coal company (Poland)	Poland	State / private	291	0.7
33	Yankuang Group	People's Republic of China	State	256	0.6
34	Arch Coal	United States	Private	232	0.5
35	Eni	Italy	Private	231	0.5
35	Equinor	Norway	State	231	0.5
37	Türkmengaz	Turkmenistan	State	230	0.5
38	ConocoPhillips	United States	Private	224	0.5
39	Coal company (Kazakhstan)	Kazakhstan	State / private	222	0.5
40	SUEK	Russia	Private	218	0.5
41	Henan Energy and Chemical Industry	People's Republic of China	State	215	0.5
41	Anglo American	United Kingdom	Private	215	0.5
43	Jizhong Energy	People's Republic of China	State	213	0.5
44	Surgutneftegas	Russia	Private	212	0.5
45	Shanxi Jincheng Anthracite Coal Mining	People's Republic of China	State	204	0.5
46	Bumi Resources	Indonesia	Private	200	0.5
47	Sinopec	People's Republic of China	State	197	0.5
48	Kailuan Group	People's Republic of China	State	192	0.5
49	China National Offshore Oil	People's Republic of China	State	187	0.4
50	Shanxi Lu'an Mining	People's Republic of China	State	181	0.4

List (cumulative 1988-2015)

From 1988 to 2015, the following companies had the highest cumulative funding potential for global emissions in millions of tons of CO ₂ equivalents (CO ₂ -eq).

rank	Companies	country	Ownership	Emissions	World share in percent
1	Coal Company (People's Republic of China)	People's Republic of China	State / private	128,933	14.3
2	Saudi Aramco	Saudi Arabia	State	40,561	4.5
3	Gazprom	Russia	State	35,221	3.9
4th	National Iranian Oil Company	Iran	State	20,505	2.3
5	ExxonMobil	United States	Private	17,785	2.0
6th	Coal India	India	State	16,842	1.9
7th	PEMEX	Mexico	State	16,804	1.9
8th	Coal company (Russia)	Russia	State / private	16,740	1.9
9	Royal Dutch Shell	Netherlands United Kingdom	Private	15,017	1.7
10	China National Petroleum Corporation	People's Republic of China	State	14,042	1.6
11	BP	United Kingdom	Private	13,791	1.5
12	Chevron Corporation	United States	Private	11,823	1.3
13	Petróleos de Venezuela	Venezuela	State	11,079	1.2
14th	Abu Dhabi National Oil Company	United Arab Emirates	State	10,769	1.2
15th	Coal company (Poland)	Poland	State / private	10,480	1.2
16	Peabody Energy	United States	Private	10,364	1.2
17th	Sonatrach	Algeria	State	8,997	1.0
18th	Kuwait Petroleum Corporation	Kuwait	State	8,961	1.0
19th	Total	France	Private	8,541	0.9
20th	BHP Group	Australia United Kingdom	Private	8,183	0.9
21st	ConocoPhillips	United States	Private	7,463	0.9
22nd	Petrobras	Brazil	State	6,907	0.8
23	Lukoil	Russia	Private	6,750	0.8
24	Rio Tinto Group	Australia United Kingdom	Private	6,743	0.7
25th	Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation	Nigeria	State	6,491	0.7
26th	Petronas	Malaysia	State	6,185	0.7
27	Rosneft	Russia	State	5,866	0.7
28	Arch Coal	United States	Private	5,696	0.6
29	Iraq National Oil Company	Iraq	State	5,362	0.6
30th	Eni	Italy	Private	5,319	0.6
31	Anglo American	United Kingdom	Private	5,287	0.6
32	Surgutneftegas	Russia	Private	5,135	0.6
33	Alpha Natural Resources	United States	Private	4,904	0.5
34	Qatar Petroleum	Qatar	State	4,901	0.5
35	Pertamina	Indonesia	State	4,857	0.5
36	Coal company (Kazakhstan)	Kazakhstan	State / private	4,735	0.5
37	Equinor	Norway	State	4,695	0.5
38	National Oil Corporation	Libya	State	4,526	0.5
39	Consol Energy	United States	Private	4,495	0.5
40	Coal Company (Ukraine)	Ukraine	State / private	4,429	0.5
41	RWE	Germany	Private	4,201	0.5
42	Oil and Natural Gas Corporation	India	State	3,560	0.4
43	Glencore	Switzerland	Private	3,387	0.4
44	Türkmengaz	Turkmenistan	State	3,217	0.4
45	Sasol	South Africa	Private	3,195	0.4
46	Repsol	Spain	Private	2,996	0.3
47	Anadarko Petroleum	United States	Private	2,991	0.3
48	Egyptian General Petroleum	Egypt	State	2,827	0.3
49	Petroleum Development Oman	Oman	State	2,769	0.3
50	Coal company (Czech Republic)	Czech Republic	State / private	2,706	0.3

List (cumulative 1965-2017)

From 1965 to 2017, the following companies had the highest cumulative funding potential for global emissions in millions of tons of CO ₂ equivalents (CO ₂ -eq).

rank	Companies	country	Ownership	Emissions	World share in percent
1	Saudi Aramco	Saudi Arabia	State	59,262	4.38
2	Chevron Corporation	United States	Private	43,345	3.20
3	Gazprom	Russia	State	43,230	3.19
4th	ExxonMobil	United States	Private	41,904	3.09
5	National Iranian Oil Company	Iran	State	35,658	2.63
6th	BP	United Kingdom	Private	34,015	2.51
7th	Royal Dutch Shell	Netherlands United Kingdom	Private	31,948	2.36
8th	Coal India	India	State	23,124	1.71
9	PEMEX	Mexico	State	22,645	1.67
10	Petróleos de Venezuela	Venezuela	State	15,745	1.16
11	China National Petroleum Corporation	People's Republic of China	State	15,632	1.15
12	Peabody Energy	United States	Private	15,385	1.14
13	ConocoPhillips	United States	Private	15,229	1.12
14th	Abu Dhabi National Oil Company	United Arab Emirates	State	13,840	1.01
15th	Kuwait Petroleum Corporation	Kuwait	State	13,479	1.00
16	Iraq National Oil Company	Iraq	State	12,596	0.93
17th	Total	France	Private	12,352	0.91
18th	Sonatrach	Algeria	State	12.302	0.91
19th	BHP Group	Australia United Kingdom	Private	9,802	0.72
20th	Petrobras	Brazil	State	8,676	0.64

Web links

• 100 companies are responsible for 71% of GHG emissions at Acciona
• Which Companies Are Responsible For the Most Carbon Emissions? at VisualCapitalist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Paul Griffin, Richard Heede, Ian van der Vlugt: The Carbon Majors Database Methodology Report 2017 . ( cdp.net [PDF; 585 kB ]).
2. ↑ ^{a b} CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017. Carbon Disclosure Project, accessed on May 15, 2020 . 
3. ^ Matthew Taylor, Jonathan Watts: Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions . In: The Guardian . October 9, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed May 15, 2020]).
4. ↑ Top Twenty Rank 1965-2017. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .