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Greenhouse gas emissions from transport

Greenhouse gas emissions from fuel combustion in domestic transport: road, rail, domestic aviation and domestic navigation (UNFCCC category 1.A.3).

More on how it is measured
  • It is part of ghg_emissions_energy, in million tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
  • National inventory reported to the UNFCCC (and, for EU members, to the EU): the seven Kyoto gases weighted by their 100-year global warming potential.
  • Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) and international aviation and shipping are not included.
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Sectors follow the UNFCCC reporting categories, so they add up to the total except for indirect CO2, which is not allocated to a sector. Each annual submission recalculates the whole series back to 1990, so past values change between releases.

Key facts

Figures last updated on 2026-10-12.

Rankings

EU countries by greenhouse gas emissions from transport, 2024

Top 15. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Germany: 144.87 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentGermany144.87France: 122.36 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentFrance122.36Italy: 113.28 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentItaly113.28Spain: 90.37 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentSpain90.37Poland: 70.01 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentPoland70.01Netherlands: 25.13 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentNetherlands25.13Belgium: 24.92 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentBelgium24.92Romania: 22.71 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentRomania22.71Czechia: 20.76 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentCzechia20.76Austria: 19.51 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentAustria19.51Greece: 18.23 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentGreece18.23Portugal: 18.11 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentPortugal18.11Sweden: 17.22 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentSweden17.22Hungary: 14.02 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentHungary14.02Ireland: 11.78 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentIreland11.78Germany: 144.87 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentGermany144.87France: 122.36 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentFrance122.36Italy: 113.28 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentItaly113.28Spain: 90.37 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentSpain90.37Poland: 70.01 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentPoland70.01Netherlands: 25.13 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentNetherlands25.13Belgium: 24.92 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentBelgium24.92Romania: 22.71 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentRomania22.71Czechia: 20.76 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentCzechia20.76Austria: 19.51 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentAustria19.51Greece: 18.23 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentGreece18.23Portugal: 18.11 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentPortugal18.11Sweden: 17.22 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentSweden17.22Hungary: 14.02 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentHungary14.02Ireland: 11.78 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentIreland11.78
million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Source: European Environment Agency greenhouse gas inventory (via Eurostat), Greenhouse gas emissions by source sector, fuel combustion in transport (CRF 1.A.3), million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (env_air_gge, source: EEA). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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