Pemex, among the largest emitters of carbon dioxide in the world

LONDON (EFE).- The Spanish company Repsol and seven Latin Americans, between them Pemex and the Brazilian Petrobrasare among the companies that have contributed the most to the global carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), according to an analysis by the InfluenceMap study center released this Thursday.

According to this center, the 80% of emissions since the Paris Agreement (2016) until 2022 was linked to 57 producers of fossil fuels and cement, and also finds that 88% of emissions are linked to a total of 117 producers.

Tops the list of most polluting companies petrolera Saudi Aramco, with 4.8% of total global emissions, followed by Russia Gazpromwith 3.3%, the state coal giant Coal Indiawith 3%, and the also state National Iranian Oil Companycon 2,8 %.

The Mexican Pemex, with 1.0% of emissions, it appears in twelfth place on the list; the Brazilian Petrobras, with 0.8%, in 19th; Petróleos de Venezuela, with 0.6%, in 21st; and the Colombian Ecopetrol, with 0.3%, in 59th.

Respol appears further down, in position 50, with 0.2% of global emissions; the Ecuadorian PetroEcuador, with 0.2%, in 75th place; the Argentine YPF, with the same percentage and in position 77; and the Mexican cement company Cemex, with 0.1%, at 105.
InfluenceMap reminds that more than 72% of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and cement since the Industrial Revolution can be traced in the database known as Carbon Majors.

The report released today uses this Carbon Majors file to quantify the contribution of the largest oil, gas, coal and cement producers to global carbon emissions, the main driver of climate change.

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