Greenland

CO₂ from fossil fuels and industry in Greenland, 2022.

2022 at a glance

Total: 0.587 million tonnes
Per person: 10.5 tonnes
Per unit of GDP: Not published

Not ranked: no per-GDP figure is published for Greenland in 2022.

In 2024, the latest year with a total, Greenland emitted 0.619 million tonnes.

The trend

CO2 emissions, Greenland, 1950 to 2024

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry in Greenland was 0.619 million tonnes in 2024, 1% less than in 1990. The highest yearly total between 1950 and 2024 was 0.722 million tonnes, in 1977.

Show the data as a table

Every fifth year and the latest
Year	Million tonnes
1950	0.0989
1955	0.209
1960	0.224
1965	0.344
1970	0.381
1975	0.506
1980	0.564
1985	0.509
1990	0.624
1995	0.534
2000	0.667
2005	0.627
2010	0.661
2015	0.548
2020	0.55
2024	0.619

By source, 2022

CO2 by source, Greenland, 2022, million tonnes
Source	Million tonnes
Oil	0.587
Cement	0
Gas flaring	0

Sources

Our World in Data, CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (owid-co2-data.csv): countries from 1950. Our World in Data, CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions), based on the Global Carbon Budget (2025), the Maddison Project Database 2023 (Bolt and van Zanden) and OWID's population series. Retrieved 16 October 2026. Terms. Trimmed from the published file.

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