Juntos para 1,I5
Portugese NECP
The latest draft (August 2024) shows some improvement from the 2019 NECP. The economy-wide GHG emission reduction target was updated to the upper limit of the range in the previous version and climate neutrality was anticipated to 2045. The primary and final energy consumption targets are in line with the requirements of the new 2023 Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) and the target for renewables in the energy mix slightly increased. However it still falls short of the ambition needed to comply with the Paris Agreement.
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Portugal – climate action progress in figures
Check Portugal’s implementation of its National Energy and Climate Plan
As of 2022, Portugal was not fully on track to implement its old 2019 NECP, whose ambition is now obsolete. Net and gross emissions have stagnated in the past two years and, as of 2022, they were around 30 percentage points away from the planned 2030 targets. Emissions from non-ETS sectors seem to be on track to meet the (extremely unambitious) old NECP objectives. Emissions from the transport sector remain a reason for concern: after a sharp decline during the pandemic year (2020), they increased again at a relatively fast rate.
Este setor agora está prejudicando a conquista das metas nacionais devido ao seu peso nas emissões nacionais: cerca de 30% das emissões nacionais. Além disso, o consumo de energia primária e final aumentou acentuadamente entre 2020 e 2022, colocando Portugal fora da pista de sua antiga trajetória de eficiência energética. As renováveis estão aumentando sua relevância no mix de energia, mas, em 2022, a parcela de renováveis na geração de eletricidade ainda não estava alinhada com a trajetória NECP de 2019. Planos nacionais de energia e clima nacionais do projeto de português
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“Mind the NECP Gap”
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Portuguese NECP Assessment
Overall Portugal does not move towards a 1.5° trajectory. The plan fulfils the minimum EU requirement for climate effort sharing. However, the energy efficiency contribution is not in line with the EU 2030 energy efficiency target and it is unclear whether the contribution for renewable energy is in line with the EU-binding renewables target...
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NECPs Explainer
If we were to tell you in one minute everything about EU National and Energy Climate Plans (NECPs), this is how we’d do it. Watch the video and see by yourself the links between National Energy and Climate Plans and our day-to-day European lives.