In 2023, the Swiss-based company reported emissions amounting to 16.7 million metric tons of scope 1 carbon dioxide emissions, and 10.3 million metric tons of scope 2 carbon dioxide emissions. Glencore plc was newly formed in May 2013 through a merger with Xstrata.
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* Includes emissions from reductants used in Glencore's metallurgical smelters. It also includes CO₂e of methane emissions from Glencore's operations, which is around 20% of Scope 1 emissions.
** Glencore applies appropriate country-by-country grid emission factors to all of their purchased electricity, regardless of specific renewable electricity contracts.
This statistic was assembled using several editions of the report.
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