EU Outer Regions Strategy: The European Commission adopted a new strategy and regulatory package for the EU’s outermost regions, including Portugal’s Azores and Madeira, aiming for stronger resilience, fairer opportunities, and better-tailored rules that reflect local constraints—while also boosting biodiversity, innovation, connectivity and climate adaptation. Sustainable Aviation Planning: A new international study used anonymized mobile signals from Lisbon Airport to forecast passenger surges more accurately, helping cut congestion and emissions through better airport capacity decisions. Renewables Finance: Sonnedix secured a record refinancing for Chile renewable energy and storage, supporting further solar and battery projects and expanding power marketing—part of the wider energy transition push. Climate Resilience Ranking: Chicago was named the most climate-resilient major city in a new global index, highlighting how preparedness and infrastructure investments can reduce risk from heat, flooding and wildfires. Portugal-Africa Heritage & Environment Tech: Construction began on Macau’s Earth system data exchange centre in Hengqin, designed to share meteorological and environmental data for disaster prevention and environmental management—relevant to climate services across regions. Portugal in the News Mix: Portugal’s olive cooperation talks with Pakistan proposed a joint working group focused on irrigation, mechanized harvesting and post-harvest processing.