This statistic outlines the world's leading private and state-owned coal producers by carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane emissions cumulatively from 1988 to 2013, in billion metric tons of CO2-equivalent. From 1988 to 2013, Peabody Coal produced some 10 billion metric tons of CO2-equivalent.
Leading coal producers by emissions worldwide from 1988 to 2013 (in billion metric tons CO2 equivalent)*
* Methane emission figures have been converted to CO2 equivalent.
** Soviet Union figures range from 1988 to 1991, with Russa, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan figures taking its place since 1992.
*** Czechoslovakia figures range from 1988 to 1992, with Czech Republic figures taking its place since 1993.
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Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. (November 18, 2015). Leading coal producers by emissions worldwide from 1988 to 2013 (in billion metric tons CO2 equivalent)* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 30, 2021, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/534741/leading-coal-producers-by-emissions/
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. "Leading coal producers by emissions worldwide from 1988 to 2013 (in billion metric tons CO2 equivalent)*." Chart. November 18, 2015. Statista. Accessed November 30, 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/534741/leading-coal-producers-by-emissions/
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. (2015). Leading coal producers by emissions worldwide from 1988 to 2013 (in billion metric tons CO2 equivalent)*. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 30, 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/534741/leading-coal-producers-by-emissions/
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. "Leading Coal Producers by Emissions Worldwide from 1988 to 2013 (in Billion Metric Tons Co2 Equivalent)*." Statista, Statista Inc., 18 Nov 2015, https://www.statista.com/statistics/534741/leading-coal-producers-by-emissions/
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Leading coal producers by emissions worldwide from 1988 to 2013 (in billion metric tons CO2 equivalent)* Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/534741/leading-coal-producers-by-emissions/ (last visited November 30, 2021)
