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Decree-Law No. 26/2012 establishing the Environmental Basic Law

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Provides that the State should implement the necessary adaptation and mitigation measures to climate change to promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, their removal by sinks and the minimization of the negative effects of climate change impacts on biophysical systems.

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