Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality in 2050

The Paris Agreement created a link between current climate policies and achieving carbon neutrality by the end of the century. 

At the COP22 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Marrakesh in 2016, Portugal committed to being carbon neutral by 2050.

Achieving zero emissions in carbon represents an opportunity as well as a considerable challenge. The successful transition to zero emissions depends on the collaborative engagement between policies, technology and capital, as well as the effective involvement of the public and private sectors.

Thus, the main objective of the Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality 2050 is the identification and analysis of the implications associated with alternative, technically feasible, economically feasible and socially accepted trajectories, and which will achieve the goal of carbon neutrality of the Portuguese economy in 2050.

The project provides from the outset, a broad and active involvement and mobilization of all stakeholders. The approach to stakeholder engagement will focus on assessing policy options and trajectories for the national economy, taking stakeholder perspectives into account and jointly analyzing the implications and opportunities derived from carbon neutrality.

The project “Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality in 2050” is an initiative of the Portuguese Environmental Fund.

Source: Get2C