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The indicator shows total economic losses from weather- and climate-related extreme events (such as windstorms, flooding, heatwaves, cold spells, droughts or wildfires) per country and per year (since 1980). A moving average for the previous 30 years is added because of the large interannual variability of the losses.
Between 1980 and 2023, climate-related extremes caused around EUR 738 billion . In 2003, Malta and Europe as a whole faced increased droughts and heatwaves, leading to .
Malta’s climate-related economic vulnerabilities stem from floods, extreme heat and windstorms. Water resources, infrastructure and transport, land use and buildings, natural ecosystems, agriculture and fisheries, health, civil protection and tourism are the sectors prioritised for adaptation measures within the low-carbon development strategy, which serves as the latest update of .
Malta aims to increase mitigation and adaptive capacity by understanding the available climate data and working to bridge existing gaps. This is currently being achieved through multiple ongoing projects, such as the climate vulnerability risk assessment of the , and the , launched in March 2024 and funded by the EU’s Technical Support Instrument.
The VRA project will provide local insights into how climate change affects the environment, infrastructure and communities. The Commoncoast project’s ‘capping’ component aims to integrate climate considerations into Malta’s policy landscape.
References and footnotes
- a bEEA, ‘Economic losses from weather- and climate-related extremes in Europe’, EEA website, 14 October 2025, accessed 23 June 2025, https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/economic-losses-from-climate-related#ref-GwRxb.
- ↵MECP, Malta Low Carbon Development Strategy, Valletta, 2021, accessed 24 June 2025, https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/MLT_LTS_Nov2021.pdf.
- ↵Government of Malta, Malta’s National Energy and Climate Plan, Valletta, 2024, accessed 24 June 2025, https://commission.europa.eu/publications/malta-final-updated-necp-2021-2030-submitted-2025_en.
- ↵Coastal and Marine Union, ‘Climate–Match: Mainstreaming of climate adaptation for horizontal coordination | 2024–2026’, Coastal and Marine Union website, accessed 23 June 2025, https://www.eucc.net/our-projects.