Monitoring Report 2020

2020 was the most disruptive year in recent decades, due to the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. In Portugal the challenges posed were serious but stimulating, revealing a capacity for rapid empowerment and expressive resilience of people and organisations. The public service assumed, on a general scale, its main mission, corresponding to the circumstances and desires of the community. The Portuguese Environment Agency (APA), as the main environmental regulator responsible for the implementation of public environmental policies, was no exception in the need to undertake a gigantic effort to adapt to these new circumstances. exceptional.