The National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) is a ten-year integrated document mandated by the European Union to each of its member states in order for the EU to meet its overall greenhouse gases emissions targets. Following feedback from an EU-wide assessment of draft NECP submissions, EU members are required to submit updated final NECPs for the period 2021-2030. The Energy and Climate Plan addresses all five dimensions of the EU Energy Union: decarbonisation, energy efficiency, energy security, internal energy markets and research, innovation and competitiveness.
The plan establishes the following objectives: 1) to limit the GHG emissions, to build a strategy based on renewable sources of energy on the path to a carbon neutral economy (electrification of the economy and consumption, promote electric vehicles,introduce of renewable gases); 2) Rehabilitating and making buildings more efficient, to promote active and shared mobility, reinforce public transport and electric mobility; 3) to diversificate energy sources by the development of endogenous renewable energy resources; 4) to promote interconnectivity in energy markets and systems; 5) to invest in public and private research, innovation and competitiveness. This plan increases Portugal's non-ETS net GHG emissions reduction target for 2030 (relative to 2005) from a 17% reduction to 28.7%.
