據(jù)美國油價(jià)網(wǎng)2022年3月22日報(bào)道，科學(xué)家在與路透社分享的一項(xiàng)新研究中發(fā)現(xiàn)，盡管墨西哥當(dāng)局承諾減少伴生氣放空燃燒活動(dòng)，但去年墨西哥的伴生氣放空燃燒活動(dòng)仍達(dá)到了歷史最高水平，打破了一年前創(chuàng)下的紀(jì)錄。伴生氣放空燃燒活動(dòng)是造成溫室氣體污染的一個(gè)主要來源。

科羅拉多礦業(yè)學(xué)院地球觀測組的研究員塔瑪拉·斯帕克斯對路透社表示：“墨西哥伴生氣放空燃燒活動(dòng)在去年年初達(dá)到峰值，但全年仍保持在足夠高的水平，超過了已經(jīng)創(chuàng)下紀(jì)錄的2020年。”

地球觀測組分析了美國宇航局在墨西哥的衛(wèi)星圖像。 斯帕克斯告訴路透社記者，研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，墨西哥不僅伴生氣放空燃燒活動(dòng)增加，而且燃燒地點(diǎn)的數(shù)量也從2020年的170個(gè)增加到2021年的181個(gè)。  

據(jù)世界和平組織說，伴生氣放空燃燒數(shù)量的上升主要是由墨西哥國有石油巨頭墨西哥國家石油公司(Pemex)的燃除活動(dòng)增加造成的。墨西哥國家石油公司是世界上負(fù)債最多的公司。 

墨西哥在2015年簽署了一項(xiàng)承諾，承諾加入到到2030年結(jié)束伴生氣放空燃燒的全球倡議中。 然而，路透社報(bào)道的數(shù)據(jù)表明，墨西哥并沒有履行其氣候承諾。

李峻 編譯自 美國油價(jià)網(wǎng)

原文如下：

Gas Flaring In Mexico Hits Record High

Gas flaring in Mexico reached all-time high levels in 2021, beating the previous record from a year earlier, despite pledges from Mexican authorities to reduce the flaring activity, which is a major source of greenhouse gas pollution, scientists found in new research shared with Reuters.

“Flaring peaked in early 2021 but remained high enough throughout the year to beat 2020, which was already a record high,” Tamara Sparks, a researcher at the Earth Observation Group of the Colorado School of Mines, told Reuters exclusively.

The Earth Observation Group has analyzed NASA satellite images of flare sites in Mexico. It found that not only the intensity but the number of flaring sites also increased—up to 181 in 2021 from 170 sites in 2020, Sparks told Reuters.

According to The Organization for World Peace, the rising number of gas flares was mostly the result of flaring by Mexico’s state-controlled oil giant Pemex, the world’s most indebted company.  

Mexico signed in 2015 a pledge to join the global initiative to end gas flaring by 2030. Yet, the data reported by Reuters suggests that the country.