The Minister of the Environment and Climate Action, Duarte Cordeiro, warned this Friday that Portugal is in Europe “one of the countries that most feels and will feel” the effects of climate change such as the rise in water levels.
Portugal is one of the countries in all of Europe that feels the most, and will feel the most, the effects of climate change and extreme phenomena and the rise in water levels,” said the official, in Vila do Conde, in the Porto district. , the intervention in the act of signing an intervention protocol for the protection of the dune system between Mindelo and Ribeira de Silvares.
Duarte Cordeiro highlighted that “the entire coastline will require permanent actionvigilant and persistent recharging of beaches, replacement of the dune system, maintenance of coastal defense structures, desilting of dune systems and bars.
The minister recalled that it is already planned “important investments on the coast”with European funding resources of 143 million euros, of which 118 million euros have already been approved and around 77 million euros have been executed.
Regarding the draft protocol, budgeted at 800 thousand euros, for the protection of the dune system between Mindelo and Ribeira de Silvares, according to the vice president of the Portuguese Environment Agency, Pimenta Machado, who aims to solve “the worsening of the state of coastal erosionthe displacement of the primary dune towards the interior and the invasion of the existing walkway in the area and the dune situation and structural instability” resulting from the “large volumes of sand” in the place.
The session also announced that the intervention for the protection and rehabilitation of the Árvore beachfront, in Vila do Conde, “will last until the end of this month.”
In total, the environmental recovery and requalification plan for Vila do Conde foresees an investment of some five million euros in four projects, namely, the protection and rehabilitation of the coastal system in the Atlantic Marginal (1.09 million euros) and the protection and rehabilitation of the adjacent defense areas of the Arvore seafront (1.8 million euros), both already approved for European funding, and the project for the rehabilitation of the Ave river seafront (1.98 million euros) and protection of the dune system between Mindelo and Ribeira de Silvares (0.8 million euros), the latter in the application phase of the Operational Program for Sustainability and Efficiency in the Use of Resources (POSEUR).
Source: Observadora
