An international group based in Paris says the world produced a record amount of carbon dioxide last year.
总部设在巴黎的一个国际组织说，去年世界产生了创纪录的二氧化碳量。
 
The International Energy Agency (IEA) said Thursday that the amount of carbon dioxide gas produced around the world rose by 0.9 percent in 2022.
国际能源署 (IEA) 周四表示，2022 年全球二氧化碳气体产量增加了 0.9%。
 
Burning fossil fuels, such as oil, natural gas and coal, releases carbon dioxide. The gas is also produced by life on Earth and plants use it to grow.
燃烧石油、天然气和煤炭等化石燃料会释放二氧化碳。这种气体也由地球上的生命产生，植物用它来生长。
 
Scientists believe carbon dioxide traps heat and increases the world's temperature. Some experts say high temperatures can cause bad weather events such as a lack of rain and storms.
科学家们认为二氧化碳会吸收热量并增加世界的温度。一些专家说，高温会导致恶劣的天气事件，例如缺雨和暴风雨。
 
Climate scientists are concerned about the IEA report. They say people around the world must cut carbon emissions to reduce the world's temperature.
气候科学家对国际能源署的报告感到担忧。他们说世界各地的人们必须减少碳排放以降低世界温度。
 
Rob Jackson is a professor of earth system science at Stanford University. "Any emissions growth – even one percent – is a failure," he said, adding that even keeping emissions the same year to year is a problem.
Rob Jackson 是斯坦福大学地球系统科学教授。“任何排放量增长——即使是百分之一——都是失败的，”他说，并补充说即使每年保持排放量相同也是一个问题。
 
"It's cuts or chaos for the planet. Any year with higher coal emissions is a bad year for our health and for the Earth," he said.
“这对地球来说是削减或混乱。任何煤炭排放量增加的年份对我们的健康和地球来说都是糟糕的一年，”他说。
 
Increased use of coal for energy has caused some of the emissions growth. Many countries switched from natural gas to coal as gas prices rose in 2022. Natural gas became more costly as many nations stopped buying gas from Russia because of the country's invasion of Ukraine.
煤炭作为能源的使用增加导致了一些排放量的增长。随着 2022 年天然气价格上涨，许多国家从天然气转向煤炭。由于俄罗斯入侵乌克兰，许多国家停止从俄罗斯购买天然气，因此天然气变得更加昂贵。
 
Emissions from oil also went up but were lower than the years before the COVID-19 pandemic. Much of the increase came as people returned to airplane travel after staying home for much of 2020 and 2021.
石油排放量也有所上升，但低于 COVID-19 大流行之前的几年。大部分增长是由于人们在 2020 年和 2021 年的大部分时间呆在家里后重返飞机旅行。
 
While 2022 set a record, experts said the amount of carbon dioxide was lower than expected. They said pandemic restrictions in China, the increase in electric vehicles, solar power and new heating systems prevented emissions from rising higher.
虽然 2022 年创下了记录，但专家表示二氧化碳含量低于预期。他们说，中国的大流行限制、电动汽车、太阳能和新供暖系统的增加阻止了排放量的上升。
 
Fatih Birol is IEA's executive director. Birol said "without clean energy, the growth in carbon dioxide emissions would have been nearly three times as high."
Fatih Birol 是 IEA 的执行董事。比罗尔表示，“如果没有清洁能源，二氧化碳排放量的增长将近三倍。”
 
Birol said the use of fossil fuels is still too high and oil companies are making a lot of money. The fossil fuel companies, Birol said, need to "take their share of responsibility, in line with their pledges to meet climate goals."
比罗尔表示，化石燃料的使用仍然过高，石油公司赚了很多钱。比罗尔说，化石燃料公司需要“根据他们实现气候目标的承诺，承担起他们的责任。”
 
John Sterman leads the Sloan Sustainability Initiative at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He said it is still possible to reach climate goals.
John Sterman 在麻省理工学院领导斯隆可持续发展计划。他说，仍有可能实现气候目标。
 
He said countries around the world must stop cutting down trees, continue to help people buy electric cars and pay for new home heating systems. He argued that renewable energy needs government payments to support it and businesses that produce carbon dioxide should face increased costs.
他说，世界各国必须停止砍伐树木，继续帮助人们购买电动汽车并支付新的家庭供暖系统费用。他认为，可再生能源需要政府付款来支持，而生产二氧化碳的企业应该面临成本增加的问题。
 
He called it "a massive, massive undertaking."
他称其为“一项艰巨的任务”。