Emissions from nickel mining amounted to a total of approximately 120 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent worldwide in 2019. Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions from nickel mining amounted to 51 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent, while freight and downstream activities created another 69 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions from nickel production.
Emissions from mining activities worldwide as of 2019, by selected mineral commodity
(in million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent)
Characteristic
Scope 1 & 2
Freight & downstream
Nickel
51
69
Copper
80
29
Iron ore (Seaborn)
34
62
Metallurgic coal (Seaborn)
71
18
Gold
81
0
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