Next year Portugal will have a national pavilion at the UN climate conference, which will take place in Dubai, a source from the Ministry of the Environment told Lusa on Thursday.
The presence of a national pavilion, decided by the Minister of the Environment, Duarte Cordeiro, “is a way of giving visibility to mature environmental policieswhich have attracted admiration from various countries and partners,” the source said.
The Portuguese pavilion, he added, will be a space to share national experiences and results in the area of energy transition, mobility and biodiversity.
According to the same source, it will also be a space to share with Portuguese civil society and non-governmental environmental organizations.
This will be the first time that Portugal will have a national pavilion at UN conferences over time.
So far, even at COP27, which is currently taking place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Portugal participates in the representation of the European Union and uses the flag of the European Union for work meetings.
Several countries, including the countries of the European Union, have their own pavilions at climate change conferences.
Portugal, the source said, either next year give more visibility to climate policies and their results????????
The source from the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Action did not guarantee that Portugal will always have a pavilion from now on, stating that it will have it next year and that “the idea is to have it” always.
In Sharm el-Sheikh, the 27th UN conference on climate change, the largest and most important annual climate-related conference on the planet, has been taking place since the 6th and is scheduled to end on Friday.
The first climate meeting organized by the UN was in 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted, and countries agreed on the need to control greenhouse gas emissions. .
Since 1994, the UN annually organizes the so-called “COP” (Conference of the Parties), which bring together practically all the countries of the world, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming.
Source: Observadora
