Carbon Majors is a database of historical production data from 0 of the world’s largest oil, gas, coal, and cement producers. This data is used to quantify the direct operational emissions and emissions from the combustion of marketed products that can be attributed to these entities. These entities include:
The data spans back to 1854 and contains over 1.39 trillion tonnes of CO2e covering 69% of global fossil fuel and cement emissions since the start of the Industrial Revolution in 1751.
This graph shows the carbon dioxide emissions traced to the carbon fuels and cement produced by the Carbon Majors entities and compares them to total global fossil fuel and cement emissions.