Recognition & Track Record

Council of Europe conclusions cited “the bottom-up foresight and top-down coordination enabled by Malta’s Phase 2 Climate Command” as a good-practice example in multilevel environmental governance.

Fabian Borg returned to ESA’s ESRIN Centre for discussions on how PHASE 2® could interface with Destination Earth and how digital twin capabilities could be scaled across European climate resilience contexts.

At the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change – Mediterranean Forum in Bologna, Fabian Borg introduced the Climate Command doctrine to an audience including ECMWF, DG CLIMA, DG RTD and DG ECHO.

Climate Command was presented during the Multilevel Governance Conference in Gozo, under the Maltese Presidency of the Council of Europe, as a scalable governance model linking local foresight with higher-level decision-making.

Fabian Borg and his team engaged students and public-sector innovators through live demonstrations of PHASE 2®, DTMT-01, heat-severity mapping and population-density tools, translating technical climate intelligence into public-facing formats.

At ESA’s ESRIN Centre in Frascati, Fabian Borg presented “Malta – The Climate Sentinel”, featuring PHASE 2® and DTMT-01 as practical models for applying Sentinel data to climate resilience.

A Japanese delegation from JANUS and the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency visited Malta to explore PHASE 2® climate and disaster-risk capabilities, including tsunami-simulation potential.

PHASE 2® was presented to the European Commission, including DG CLIMA and DG CNECT, as a climate resilience and digital twin capability aligned with emerging European adaptation needs.

AHEAD Institute for Societal Advancement Ltd was incorporated in Malta as the organisational vehicle through which selected capabilities, methods and experience developed over the previous decade could be carried forward.

DTMT-01, the Digital Twin of Malta, was launched as an applied climate foresight demonstrator integrating geospatial data, analytics and simulation logic for risks including urban heat, flooding and sea-level rise.

Fabian Borg contributed to the Eionet Expert Workshop on Climate Adaptation Knowledge Platforms, hosted by the European Environment Agency, highlighting the need for AI-driven and user-tailored climate knowledge systems.

At the European Roundtable on Climate Risk Management, Fabian Borg introduced a “firefighting approach” to climate action, emphasising immediate hazard mitigation alongside long-term adaptation.

PHASE 2® reached Technology Readiness Level 5, validating core functionalities in a relevant environment and confirming its capability to simulate complex climate hazards through digital twin logic.

The conceptual leap toward Climate Intelligence brought together foresight tools, simulation engines and public communication into a more operational framework for climate preparedness.

The work shifted from adaptation awareness toward resilience capability, supported by public-facing climate tools that translated urban heat and heat severity into accessible decision-support outputs.

Following national recognition, PHASE 1 moved into applied public-sector use, supporting climate risk assessment, urban heat island simulation and resilience planning for local decision contexts.

PHASE 1 received the Malta Intellectual Property Award for Scientific Innovation, recognising its Urban Heat Island methodology and its relevance for small island states facing acute climate risks.

PHASE 1 underwent an independent peer review by Dr Gordon Campbell of the European Space Agency, validating the robustness of the methodology and opening the way for deeper Earth-observation integration.

Fabian Borg conceived the vision for PHASE 2® as a national-scale digital twin for climate resilience and developed the associated LiDAR blueprint needed to support very-high-resolution spatial foresight.

Fabian Borg conceived PHASE 1 to address climate adaptation through advanced Urban Heat Island analysis and to establish a scientific pathway for applied public-sector climate innovation.