Nobel Peace prize winner Rajendra Pachauri, said Portugal could change dramatically in the next half century because of climate change and become more like North Africa, affecting beaches, farming, fishing and even wine.
Pachauri, the 2007 Peace Prize winner, was in Portugal this week to attend a conference on climate change held as part of the Estoril Conferences cycle.
He said that temperatures and sea levels had been rising since the middle of the last century, in line with an increase in greenhouse gases, and that the extreme weather situations seen since in recent years are related with “human interference”.
The south of Europe, he elaborated, including Portugal, will see the sea advancing, changes in tourism and farming, the sea will have different fish than we eat now, vines will have to change and there will be more deaths and diseases.