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Industrial facilities in temperate climate zones

This open dataset places 17,656 industrial facilities in temperate Köppen-Geiger climate zones. The 17,575 with a reported CO₂ figure emit about 3,668 Mt CO₂e/yr combined. The most common facility type here is food & beverage.

17,656facilities
17,575with reported CO₂
3.7B tCO₂e/yr

Facility types in temperate zones

Food & Beverage: 7,833 facilities8kFood & Bev…Textiles: 5,285 facilities5kTextilesCement Plant: 1,121 facilities1kCement Pla…Lime Plant: 1,056 facilities1kLime PlantSteel Plant: 518 facilities518Steel PlantChemical Plant: 508 facilities508Chemical P…Refinery: 349 facilities349RefineryOther Manufacturing: 262 facilities262Other Manu…

Climate class: Köppen-Geiger (WorldClim). Facilities: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Largest emitters (Mt CO₂e/yr)

POSCO Gwangyang steel plant: 35 Mt CO2e/yr35POSCO Gwan…Baise Prefecture City: 33 Mt CO2e/yr33Baise Pref…Wuhan Iron and Steel Co Ltd: 26 Mt CO2e/yr26Wuhan Iron…Georgia Pacific - Brewton - AL: 26 Mt CO2e/yr26Georgia Pa…Maanshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd: 25 Mt CO2e/yr25Maanshan I…POSCO Pohang steel plant: 24 Mt CO2e/yr24POSCO Poha…Baoshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd Headquarters: 24 Mt CO2e/yr24Baoshan Ir…Zhangjiagang Hongchang Steel Co Ltd: 22 Mt CO2e/yr22Zhangjiaga…Hyundai Steel Dangjin steel plant: 20 Mt CO2e/yr20Hyundai St…Rizhao Steel Holding Group Co Ltd: 19 Mt CO2e/yr19Rizhao Ste…

Measured CO₂e: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Largest facilities in temperate zones

#FacilityTypeCountryt CO₂e/yr
1POSCO Gwangyang steel plantSteel PlantSouth Korea34,799,208
2Baise Prefecture CityAluminium SmelterChina33,057,794
3Wuhan Iron and Steel Co LtdSteel PlantChina25,916,033
4Georgia Pacific - Brewton - ALPulp & Paper MillUnited States25,700,399
5Maanshan Iron and Steel Co LtdSteel PlantChina25,389,837
6POSCO Pohang steel plantSteel PlantSouth Korea24,457,044
7Baoshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd HeadquartersSteel PlantChina23,974,641
8Zhangjiagang Hongchang Steel Co LtdSteel PlantChina21,886,764
9Hyundai Steel Dangjin steel plantSteel PlantSouth Korea20,049,392
10Rizhao Steel Holding Group Co LtdSteel PlantChina19,273,891
11JFE West Japan Works (Fukuyama) steel plantSteel PlantJapan19,085,123
12ThyssenKrupp Steel Duisburg steel plantSteel PlantGermany17,975,297
13Xinyu Iron and Steel Group Co LtdSteel PlantChina16,560,215
14Nanjing Iron and Steel Co LtdSteel PlantChina15,424,939
15Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron and Steel Co LtdSteel PlantChina15,197,703

Cite this

Inzonex IndustryAtlas (2026). Industrial facilities by Köppen climate zone — Temperate. Derived from Climate TRACE v6 and Köppen-Geiger/WorldClim (CC BY 4.0). https://inzonex.co.uk/industryatlas/climate/temperate/

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