The document delivered by the government to the Assembly of the Republic highlights that with the review of the National Energy and Climate Plan (PNEC 2030), “it will be necessary to operationalise the planned measures to ensure that Portugal positions itself on a decarbonisation trajectory aligned with the objective of achieving climate neutrality by 2045”, and that “as a result, the Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality will be revised”.

The reinforcement of the renewable energy area will lead, says the government in the document, to more ambitious goals, “which highlights the 51% share of renewables in gross final energy consumption to be achieved by 2030, up from the previous 47% ”.

In addition to the increase in renewable energy, incentives for the production of renewable gases and energy storage, and measures on critical raw materials, in 2025 there will be new measures and support to reinforce energy efficiency and combat energy poverty.

According to the document, a National Ecological Restoration Plan will also be prepared, and regarding protected areas “in 2025 there will again be directors, technical teams and security guards allocated for their effective management”.

“With this change, reserves and natural parks are no longer managed remotely by regional departments and now have teams permanently in the field and in close proximity to local nature conservation problems. In the first phase, also to assess the impact of the change, the new regime will be applied to five protected areas, one in each region of the continent”, indicates the Government, which also wants to deepen the model of co-management of protected areas.

In the same area, according to OE2025, “special attention will be given to marine protected areas”, and in terms of coastal protection, the Action Program for Coastal Resilience 2025-2040 will be presented.

In the forest, the Budget talks, without specifying, about actions to preserve it and reduce the risk of fires, supporting the Landscape Transformation Program, forestry sappers and other territorial planning initiatives.