The end of the year provides an analysis of what was done or not in terms of environment, Quercus, one of the most credible environmental organizations in the country in its current report outlined a number of factors that can and should be improved for the year 2013.

The financial crisis in Portugal allowed diverting some attention of the citizens to the serious environmental problems that the country is experiencing, according to Quercus. One of these risk factors for environmental is the disinvestment in renewable energies, "an area that had good perspectives by the higher rates in electricity production due to investments made in the first decade of this new century" . The current government has also announced "a whole lot of significant changes in environmental laws, some of which are already implemented, as exemplified by the legal regime applicable to the licensing of industrial activity," without consulting the civil society organizations and pro –environmental organizations. The continuation of the National Dam plan promises more controversy throughout 2013, because, "it is unacceptable the current executive stubbornness in continuing with the National Dam Plan, even though apparent notion of social costs, environmental and economic challenges that it will bring in medium / long term to Portugal."
The lack of resources allocated to monitoring the quality of air and water, is another of the points, as well as inspection services, "threatening public health and the environment, to the extent that the monitoring of water and air quality is not being performed on a regular basis, with all the inherent risks to the health and quality of life of the people."
The government's decision to publicly announce the end of the National Ecological Reserve (REN), "without any prior dialogue with non-governmental environment organizations and without presenting concrete alternatives that proposes this legal instrument and spatial planning, reveals little democratic sense and a bad negotiation of all the process". The same autism is applied to the policy that approved the project in Vila Formosa Natural Park of Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina.
"The Government approved the implementation of the project" Tourism Development and Environmental Vila Formosa "in Odemira, near Vila Nova de Milfontes. It is an occupation of 55 acres with urbanized area, where it predicts the existence of a hotel, two holiday villages and an autonomous animation equipment for the sports and animation of themed events, all in the Natural Park of Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina (PNSACV), Special Protection Area for Birds (SPA) and Site of Community Importance, both named "West Coast" and constituents of Natura 2000. More environmental risk factors can be reviewed at the end of the link text.

http://www.quercus.pt/comunicados/2012/comunicados-dezembro/781-balanco-ambiental-2012