Environment

Promoted by the sustainability education teams and the Centro de Recolha Oficial de Animais (CROA), they aim to show students how to take care of animals, what to do when you lose a pet, as well as responsible adoptions.

The “Coração Verde” initiative certified, in 2022, another 30 new entities, which allowed to reach 600 tons of selective collection.

Porto became a little greener on Tuesday morning with the planting of over a thousand native trees and shrubs during new interventions in the Biospots network, in the Regado and Francos interchanges.

To help commercial spaces better separate the waste they produce, Porto Ambiente places, awareness teams on the ground every day. Fines are avoided and the cleaner city thanks you.

For the third consecutive year, Porto Ambiente received the Urban Waste Management Quality Seal from the Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority.

The “Carbon Disclosure Project” (CDP) awarded, again, an A rating to Invicta (City of Porto) among the 123 cities around the world that take “a bold lead in environmental actions and transparency despite the pressures of a challenging global economic situation”.

The municipal company Porto Ambiente hosts more than two dozen partners in the CityLoops project, who are undertaking a study visit to Porto to learn about the city’s best practices in terms of sustainability and circularity.

The Parque da Cidade and Jardim do Passeio Alegre, both supervised by the Municipality of Porto, are once again recognized by the Green Flag Award programme – an award given to the best urban parks and green spaces in the world.

The European Commission selected Porto to take part in the Mission Adaptation to Climate Change, placing it back at the forefront of cities with better environmental policies.

There are 183 signatures with a collective commitment from now on: the defence of the present and future of the planet regarding climate changes.