Oil consumption fell from 61 to 41 percent in about 20 years in Portugal, with an increasing consumption of renewable energy and gas, according to data from the Pordata statistical base.
As for World Environment Day, which is celebrated this Sunday, figures from Pordata indicate that in 2020 the most consumed final energy source was oil, equivalent to 41% of the total, compared to 61% in 1998, followed by electricity (26%, renewable). (19%), gas (11%) and solid fuels such as coal, which accounted for 0.1%.
Since 2001, gas consumption has increased by 67%, renewable energies by 20% and electricity by 16%, and in 2020 renewable energies were the source of 98% of the energy produced in Portugal, and most of it was used for biomass burning. 51% of the total, 25 percentage points less than in 1990.
Wind energy, which in 2005 accounted for 04% of production, represented 16% of the total in 2020, the same value as hydro, which varies according to the volume of precipitation, while solar represented 04% and geothermal 0. 03%.
Although, in the European Union, energy production is responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere (25%) in 2019, it is in transport that Portugal emits the most (28%), followed by industry energy (20%). ).5%).
Transport emissions have increased both in Portugal (12% between 2013 and 2019) and in the rest of the European Union.
In 2019, Portugal emitted 13% more greenhouse gases than in 1990.
Along the way, 2005 was the year, marked by a volume of emissions of 46% compared to 1990, and since then there have been fluctuations, with decreases in most years, but increase between 2014 and 2017.
In the context of the European Union, Portugal had the fourth largest increase in its emissions compared to 1990, behind Cyprus, Ireland and Spain and ahead of Austria among the five member states that increased emissions.
The data collected in Pordata, which belongs to the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, also point to a general increase in average temperatures since the 1960s at the main Portuguese meteorological stations, from 0.8 degrees in Castelo Branco to 02 degrees in Funchal.
As for the fires, 2017, the year of the deadly forest fires in the Center, continues to be the year with the largest area burned -500,000 hectares or 06% of the territory-, but 2005 was the year with the most fires, in a total of more than 41 thousand.
In 2018, half of the Portuguese territory was made up of forest ecosystems, which places Portugal in seventh place in the European Union in this indicator, above the European average of 44%.
Pordata records that in 2019 about 673 billion liters of water were used, within the limits that have been verified since 2012, between 628 and 693 billion.
In 2020, 99% of the water piped in Portugal was considered fit for consumption, a percentage that at the beginning of the century was 75% and in 1990 it did not exceed 50%.
As for beaches, in 2020 Portugal was ninth among 22 European countries with a coastline in percentage of bathing waters considered excellent (93%), above the European average of 88%.
In inland bathing water, Portugal has 75% excellent quality water, below the European average of 78%.
As for garbage, in 2020 more than half (54%) of urban waste ended up in landfills, more than double the European average of 23%.
Only 13% of waste is recycled in Portugal, far from the 30% in the EU.
The situation has progressed since 1995, when 90% of the waste produced in Portugal still went to landfill and only 01% was recycled.
Source: Observadora
