Iron & steel in Russian Federation: emitters, CO2 & carbon value

26 tracked facilities, ≈86,914,845 t CO2/yr combined — here are the largest, what that CO2 is worth at current prices, and the sector's reduction pathway. Full sector pathway: decarbonizing iron & steel.

The numbers

Iron & steel in Russian Federation at a glance

Metric	Value	Note
Facilities tracked	26	with CO2 estimates
Total est. CO2	86,914,845 t/yr	Climate TRACE 2023
Average per facility	3,342,879 t/yr
Gross value (full price)	€6,550M/yr	all tracked CO2 × €75.36/t CBAM ref — before free allocation / EU-bound share

📦 Iron & steel is a CBAM sector. EU-bound exports from Russian Federation pay the border price on the 2026→2034 phase-in — how CBAM works.

No carbon-pricing instrument is tracked for this country on this hub — exporters of CBAM goods to the EU still pay the border price with no domestic deduction.

Largest emitters

Top 10 iron & steel CO2 emitters in Russian Federation

#	Facility	Owner	t CO2/yr (est. 2023)	Indicative value
1	NLMK Lipetsk steel plant	Novolipetsk Steel PJSC	20,558,330	€1,549.3M
2	Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works	Magnitogorskiy Metallurgicheskiy Kombinat PJSC	17,594,774	€1,325.9M
3	Severstal Cherepovets steel plant	Severstal PJSC	16,537,222	€1,246.2M
4	Evraz ZSMK steel plant	Evraz ZSMK JSC	9,313,053	€701.8M
5	Mechel Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant	Chelyabinskiy Metallurgicheskiy Kombinat PJSC	7,948,014	€599.0M
6	Evraz NTMK steel plant	Evraz NTMK JSC	6,728,323	€507.0M
7	IMH Tula steel plant	Promsort LLC	3,192,173	€240.6M
8	Metalloinvest OEMK steel plant	Oskol'skiy Elektrometallurgicheskiy Kombinat Imeni Alekseya Alekseyevicha Ugarova JSC	2,576,532	€194.2M
9	Nadezhdinski Metallurgical Plant	UMK-Stal LLC	481,115	€36.3M
10	Ural Steel Metallurgical Plant	Uralskaya Stal JSC	467,522	€35.2M

Climate TRACE satellite estimates via IndustryAtlas — modelled, not verified; some entries aggregate clusters. Corrections welcome.

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Same industry, other countries

Iron & steel in China

1,317,489,541 t CO2/yr

Iron & steel in India

188,820,298 t CO2/yr

Iron & steel in Japan

101,526,243 t CO2/yr

Iron & steel in South Korea

81,601,450 t CO2/yr

Iron & steel in United States

59,333,385 t CO2/yr

Other industries in Russian Federation

Oil & gas production in Russian Federation

515,555,902 t CO2/yr

Oil refining in Russian Federation

59,137,040 t CO2/yr

Cement in Russian Federation

39,542,470 t CO2/yr

Chemicals in Russian Federation

33,005,204 t CO2/yr

Aluminium in Russian Federation

12,760,253 t CO2/yr

FAQ

Questions

How many iron & steel facilities does Russian Federation have with tracked emissions?

26 facilities carry satellite-based CO2 estimates in our dataset (Climate TRACE 2023), totalling ≈86,914,845 t CO2/yr.

What is the largest iron & steel emitter in Russian Federation?

NLMK Lipetsk steel plant — ≈20,558,330 t CO2/yr (est. 2023). Estimates are modelled, not verified declarations.

What would this CO2 cost at the CBAM price?

The gross full-price value is ≈€6,550M/yr (all tracked CO2 × €75.36/t CBAM ref). Actual CBAM liability is far smaller: it falls only on emissions embedded in EU-bound exports, and only on the phased-in share — 2.5% in 2026 rising to 100% by 2034 (Reg (EU) 2023/956).

How this page is built: heat-loss figures follow ASTM C680 / ISO 12241 (the method behind our public calculators); facility emissions from Climate TRACE & EU ETS verified data across 30,000+ industrial sites; the 2026–2034 schedule is Regulation (EU) 2023/956, not a forecast. Published by Inzonex Research. Spotted an error? Tell us — we correct on evidence.