The president of the Assembly of the Republic considers that Portugal can speak with authority today at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27), after having closed coal plants and opting for renewable energies.
“Portugal can speak with authority today at COP27: we no longer have coal-fired power plants and three-fifths of the electricity consumed comes from renewable sources,” wrote Augusto Santos Silva, a former Minister of State and Justice, on his Twitter account. External relationships. . .
The Prime Minister speaks this Tuesday before the COP27 to convey that Portugal does not soften the environmental objectives due to the energy crisis and even advances the objective of carbon neutrality to 2045.
This must be one of the main lines of the speech that António Costa will make at the end of this morning, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on his second and last day of participation in COP27 – a summit that will last until the 18th .
“The goal is not just to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, and we were the first country in the world to take on this goal at the COP in Marrakech. [em 2016] -, but we will also do everything possible to anticipate that result to 2045,” António Costa told Lusa and RTP on Monday about his main goals for this climate summit.
According to the leader of the Portuguese executive, the country is in a position to assume this new objective of achieving carbon neutrality and by 2045 and not only for 2050, since it managed to close its coal plants in two years, it is accelerating the entire transition. energy and has “a sustained policy of investment in urban public transport and railways on a national scale”.
António Costa also pointed out that Portugal has defined “a national strategy for hydrogen that will help the industry, which until today is highly dependent on natural gas.” This issue of green hydrogen, moreover, will be on the agenda of the leader of the Portuguese executive today, when he participates in a round table on the issue of new energies.
Source: TSF
