Phil Evans, Director-General of EUMETSAT and Daniel Gellens, Director-General of the Royal Meteorological Institute at the 2022 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite conference
Phil Evans, Director-General of EUMETSAT and Daniel Gellens, Director-General of the Royal Meteorological Institute at the 2022 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite conference - EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite conference gathers experts to discuss revolutionary new weather satellite system. European communities and their economies will be the direct beneficiaries of a revolutionary new meteorological satellite system, Meteosat Third Generation, which will begin to be deployed later this year, officials said today. In the current context of changing climate, severe weather events are becoming more frequent and affect the whole of Europe. Floods from Storm Bernd in the summer of 2021 left more than 180 people dead in Germany and Belgium and caused billions of euros damage, while the consequences of the record drought and fires in the summer of 2022 will be long lasting. The European Environment Agency estimates that weather and climate-related events caused as much as ¤520 billion in economic losses in the EEA between 1980 and 2020. Up to 145,000 lives were lost over the same period. EUMETSAT Director-General Phil Evans said: "The Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) system is the most complex and innovative geostationary meteorological satellite system ever built.
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