Climate change, environmental policy, and weather-related news in Portugal.
Families on the electricity social tariff or below 80 percent of median income will get vouchers covering 70 to 90 percent of an electric car, up to 15,000 euros, with nothing paid up front. About 5,500 cars are funded for 1.5 million eligible homes.
A study in Geophysical Research Letters finds that the atmospheric rivers behind Portugal's 2025 to 2026 storms matched, and locally exceeded, the moisture transport simulated for the early stages of the highest-emissions scenario.
The 2026 Lancet Countdown puts older people in Portugal at 16.3 heatwave days each last year, and attributes about four in five of the average resident's heatwave days to climate change. What the data say, and the DGS advice.
A study of 1980 to 2025 data finds tropical nights rising by about 0.7 a decade nationally and by more than two a decade near the Spanish border. What it measured, this summer's run of hot nights, and the DGS advice on heat.
IPMA's seasonal outlook, built on Copernicus models, expects November to January to run 1.0 to 1.5 °C warmer than normal on the mainland, with extra rain from December. IPMA warns the forecast is probabilistic. What it means for heating, flooding and warnings.
COP17 opens in Yerevan on 19 October with a UN report warning that the 2030 nature targets will be missed without rapid acceleration. Portugal filed its national report almost five months late, and Zero wants a real restoration budget.
IPMA has four southern districts on yellow alert for thunderstorms on Sunday. Its forecasts then show a dry, fresher week, with Lisbon near 20 °C and the first cold nights inland, down to about 3 °C in Guarda and Bragança.
