EDP currently has a cooperation agreement for a study of the impact of climate change on biodiversity in mainland Portugal to be conducted by the end of 2009. This agreement was signed with Instituto de Conservação da Natureza (the Nature Conservation Institute), CECAC - Comité Executivo da Comissão para as Alterações Climáticas (Executive Committee of the Climate Change Commission) and Dr Miguel Bastos Araújo, chief investigator of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Scientific Research Council) in Spain and associate investigator of the Oxford University Centre for the Environment.

 

The aim of this study is to assess the impacts, vulnerability and adaptability to climate change of a number of fauna species in mainland Portugal Continental, selected on the basis of their threat and/or protection status and their essential role in the preservation of biodiversity. The study will identify, analyse and assess action to be taken to minimise the impacts of climate change.