While this target has been in the works for a while, the center-right government has accelerated its planning due to the Iran conflict, which has threatened the global supply of fossil fuels and driven up prices. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were planning it, but Iran gave us the urgency of doing it,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lisbon\u2019s proposal will be presented in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, the European Commission intends to unveil a bloc-wide electrification target, similarly designed to cut fossil fuel reliance, in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gra\u00e7a Carvalho welcomed the EU executive\u2019s plans but urged Brussels not to ignore the green fuels needed to fully decarbonize parts of industry or the transport sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to invest a lot in renewable molecules \u2014 biodiesel, hydrogen, biomethane, and also sustainable aviation fuels,\u201d she said. That\u2019s why Portugal is going ahead with a fossil fuel reduction target instead of an electrification goal, she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Plus, she said, \u201cwe have decided on a target that, because of this crisis, is better understood by society \u2014\u00a0to get rid of this dependency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While this target has been in the works for a while, the center-right government has accelerated its planning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[1306,3854,1312,35,728,7159,39,1309,806,50705,2661,3046,70,95753,1200,1263,16,15,231032],"class_list":{"0":"post-950687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-aviation","9":"tag-coal","10":"tag-electricity","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-fossil-fuels","14":"tag-fuels","15":"tag-hydrogen","16":"tag-industry","17":"tag-maria-da-graca-carvalho","18":"tag-oil","19":"tag-portugal","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-sustainable-aviation","22":"tag-tax","23":"tag-transport","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-war-in-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116550980599089783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}