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Duarte Cordeiro
Cordeiro in 2022
Minister of the Environment and Climate Action
In office 30 March 2022 – 2 April 2024
Prime Minister	António Costa
Preceded by	João Pedro Matos Fernandes
Succeeded by	Maria da Graça Carvalho
Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs
In office 18 October 2019 – 30 March 2022
Prime Minister	António Costa
Preceded by	Pedro Nuno Santos
Succeeded by	Ana Catarina Mendes
Deputy Mayor of Lisbon
In office 8 April 2015 – 18 February 2019
Mayor	Fernando Medina
Preceded by	Fernando Medina
Succeeded by	João Paulo Saraiva
Secretary-General of the Socialist Youth
In office 20 July 2008 – 18 July 2010
Preceded by	Pedro Nuno Santos
Succeeded by	Pedro Delgado Alves
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office 20 June 2011 – 23 October 2015
Constituency	Setúbal
In office 15 October 2009 – 20 June 2011
Constituency	Lisbon
Personal details
Born	José Duarte Piteira Rica Silvestre Cordeiro (1979-02-23) 23 February 1979 (age 45)
Political party	Socialist Party
Alma mater	University of Lisbon

José Duarte Piteira Rica Silvestre Cordeiro (born 23 February 1979) is a Portuguese economist and politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as a Minister of the Environment and Climate Action in the XXIII Constitutional Government of Portugal of Prime Minister António Costa from 2022 to 2024. ^[1]

Political career

From 2019 to 2022, Cordeiro served as State Secretary of Parliamentary Affairs. In the negotiations to form a coalition government unter Costa following the 2019 elections, he was part of his party’s delegation. ^[2]

In September 2022, Cordeiro put a capacity of 10 gigawatts (GW) on offer for Portugal’s debut offshore wind power auction in 2023, doubling the government’s original target at the start of the year. ^[3] Under his leadership, the government invested 3 billion euros ($2.91 billion) in its electricity and natural gas systems in 2023 to lower energy prices paid by companies. ^[4] In 2023, he announced plans to launch a pioneering auction for rights to sell hydrogen for injection into the national gas grid. ^[5]

Personal life

Cordeiro is married to Susana Ramos, a public servant. ^[6]

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