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DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 207 /X
ADOPTS ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES AND SAVINGS OF
WATER
The severe energy dependence of the outside, fundamentally related to
the import of fossil energies, specifically oil, coal and gas, is one of the most
troubling problems facing Portugal, problem that inseparable from the
impacts on climate change that have the greenhouse gas emissions to
the atmosphere.
This situation presents multiple serious consequences ranging from the
increased incidence and severity of extreme climatic phenomena, to the
imbalance and fragility of ecosystems, going through the aggravation of problems
of health, or even of economic-social problems caused by the increase in
prices by virtue of not having adopted measures aiming at the change of the current model
of production and development, too dependent on fossil energy sources and
excessively carbonized.
At the level of greenhouse gas emissions, the housing sector and
services was the one that, in conjunction with that of transport, has seen increasing, since
1990, its share of responsibilities in this matter, at about 100%,
doubling, therefore, its emissions only in 15 years, predicting the same
time that up to 2010 this increase reaches the 126%!
On the other hand, the scarcity of the most precious good to life, water, and ill-treatment
to which they remain subject to our water resources, is a reality that must
worrying each time our society, not just in moments of crisis, such as if
checked during the severe drought that plagued our country in 2005, but also from
permanent form as an indeclinable task of each of us.
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In both thematics, efficiency and rationality in uses and savings
arise as an imperative, without which it will not be possible to reverse the current trend
of increasing consumerism that contribute to making our society and our
planet, in a short time, perfectly unsustainable and unable to guarantee a
future to our children.
Thankfully, science, technology and human resourcefulness, have been seeking and
found some answers and solutions to reduce consumes and wastage, to
make the satisfaction of our needs more efficient and rational, often
even without a need for major technological innovations, or from large
financial investments.
Simple measures such as the replacement of incandescent lighting lamps
by low-consumption lamps, the control of invisible spending (consumes stand by ), the
more correct choice of the periods of rega of the ajardinated spaces, the installation of
dual discharge autoclysms (6/3 lt.) or more efficient faucets, or other measures
less simple as the installation of renewable energy production equipment
(such as solar panels), the reinforcement of the insulation of the walls, the reuse of
waters (grey waters or rain), among others, can help contribute to
reduce energy and water consumables in all buildings, including buildings
public of large dimensions and with high daily consumes.
The Assembly of the Republic is not only up to the responsibility of, legislating,
giving standards of acting to society, but it must itself promote change within
of the four walls in which it exists, taking concrete action, raising awareness of the whole
universe of workers and political agents who in it live on a daily basis, so
giving the example that this is a possible task and a duty that is up to everyone.
Thus, considering the importance of adopting measures that promote the
efficiency and energy saving and water consumption and which combats its
waste and, simultaneously, the responsibility of the Assembly of the Republic of
promote, through the example, the adoption of correct ducts in this regard by part
from the rest of the society,
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The Assembly of the Republic deliberates:
-Conduct an environmental audit of the buildings and services of the Assembly of the
Republic in the sense of:
a) Knowing the current levels of energy and water consumption as well as
efficiency of these consumes, losses and wastage and associated causes;
b) Dispiston the structural and operating problems that determine
the waste and inefficiencies of consumption;
c) Present proposals for resolution of the problems encountered and of
measures to be adopted that lead to an addition of savings, rationalization and
efficiency of these consumes.
Palace of S. Bento, April 30, 2007,
The Members,
Francisco Madeira Lopes Heloísa Apollonia