Latest news and stories about climate crisis in Portugal for expats and residents.
The upcoming presidential election on February 8 presents significant challenges for the elected candidate, including addressing the impacts of climate change, such as severe storms, and making critical decisions regarding labor law reforms.
Climate damage to human health has accelerated since the Paris Agreement, concludes a Lancet Countdown report, which advocates that climate change be declared a global health emergency.
Western Europe faced a period of record temperatures between June and July, marked by four successive heatwaves.
Portugal, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom are among the affected countries. The UN Climate Secretary points to dependence on oil, coal, and gas as the cause.
The document proposes ten measures to halt airport expansion amidst the climate crisis and reduce air traffic, aiming for a transformation “based on justice and planetary boundaries.”
Home Portugal Between the Climate Crisis and Economic Maturity Between the Climate Crisis and Economic Maturity If I had to define the moment that Portugal is going through in one word, I would choose maturity.
The climate has changed and has entered our homes. What remains unaddressed is the political response. The discourse of exception persists, as if this climate train were a parenthesis rather than a pattern. Opinion by Sílvia Moutinho
Explosive cyclogenesis. Fire tornadoes. Bomb cyclones. Mega-wildfires. Cities destroyed. Floods. People killed. The climate crisis is a war against humanity — a war with no ceasefire. Over the past few months in Portugal we have seen a succession of hellish fires and extratropical cyclones that are devastating several regions of the country, particularly the central region. It really is a war, because it was deliberately provoked and those who launched these ‘bombs’ plan to continue launching them.
