{"id":1418,"date":"2021-04-26T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2021\/04\/26\/european-zero-emissions-first\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:50:49","slug":"european-zero-emissions-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe-greenport\/european-zero-emissions-first\/","title":{"rendered":"European zero emissions first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Leix\u00f5es foresees its decarbonisation 15 years before the deadline set by the European Commission\u2019s European Green Deal. The port also aims to be self-sufficient in energy production, with the capacity to obtain all its energy from renewable sources.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The goal is to become an international reference port in southern Europe in the transition to a new energy system based on the use of its own natural resources, with the ambition to be a self-sufficient port with zero emissions,\u201d said Nuno Ara\u00fajo, president of the board of directors at the APDL port authority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Energy transition roadmap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year, APDL will present its energy transition roadmap to guide concrete actions aimed at making Leix\u00f5es one of the first non-polluting ports and reinforcing its commitment to sustainable growth.<\/p>\n<p>As well as phasing out fossil fuels, the decarbonisation plan focuses on generating energy using the natural resources of the port, how to be more efficient in energy consumption, electrification and digitalisation.<\/p>\n<p>APDL is working with Spanish consulting company Inova Labs, which specialises in energy transition projects, on the implementation of a plan that will define the actions to be undertaken to successfully complete the decarbonisation project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Portuguese port aims to be the first European port to achieve zero emissions by 2035.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}