The Urban Heat Island App and JUSTNature presented at the Parliament of Malta

In the morning of April 19th, our colleague Fabian Borg addressed “Ġenerazzjoni Klima” (Generation Climate) at the Parliament of Malta presided by the Speaker Honorable Anġlu Farrugia together with Cathleen Diacono and Shirley Attard from the team of the Research Innovation Unit, one of our project's partners.

The politically neutral conference organised by Honorable Eve Borg Bonello included President Emeritus (former President of Malta), Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, MPs from both sides of the House and representatives of NGOs, young adults and children. The impassioned pleas for action on the environment and climate by the teens and children were truly heartfelt, according to Borg.

Throughout his address, Fabian Borg presented the Malta Urban Heat Island App and the Malta Climate Change Impact Analysis Heat Severity App that outlay the gravity of heat severity over the Maltese Archipelago in a longitudinal analysis spanning just four years. The study uses thermal remote sensing from NASA/USGS Landsat 8 & 9 earth observing satellites whereby quality assured data is converted in public facing scientific visualization in forms of web apps through the use and flexibility of ESRI’s ArcGIS Online Apps. Borg took opportunity to introduce to the audience the action being done by the EU Mission Adaptation to Climate Change that his unit is in charge of on behalf of the signed regions of Malta, together with mentioning the H2020 and Horizon Europe ongoing projects VARCITIES, GoGreen Routes and JUSTNature Project.