On October 17, 2019, the second meteorological station was installed in the context of the implementation of the LIFE GrIn project, in the Municipality of Heraklion. During the installation works the researchers from the Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”, Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems, Dr. K. Tsagari and Dr. E. Avramidou, with Mrs. E. Fragkouli, Mr. E. Trantas and Mr. E. Paraskevas, foresters and agriculturists of the Municipality, were present and supervising, while Mrs A. Panagiotou, director of Public Relationships and Mrs D. Chamakioti, responsible for the international relationships of the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece (KEDE) were present.

The station has been installed in an urban green area of the Municipality, where works of establishment, protection and enhancement of urban green will take place, and it is able to automatically record high-precision data concerning of air temperature, relative humidity, soil temperature and humidity, ground heat flux, total solar and photosynthetic active radiation, wind velocity and turbulence, precipitation etc. The meteorological and micro-meteorological data will be recorded in a ten-minute time step.

Additionally, the LIFE GrIn team met with the Deputy Mayor of green Mr. Ioannis Anastasakis, in order to discuss urban forestry and urban green management issues. In the meeting a consultation has been planned, with stakeholders relative to urban forestry and urban green, that will take place in the Center for Structured Democratic Dialogue, Innovation and Entrepreneurship “Dimiskopio”, in November.

On September 24, 2019, the first meteorological station was installed in the context of the implementation of the LIFE GrIn project. During the installation works the researchers from the Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”, Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems, Dr. K. Tsagari and Dr. N. Proutsos, with Mr. Th. Merkouris and S. Chochliouros, the agriculturists of the Municipality of Amaroussion, were present and supervising.

The station was installed in an urban green area of the Municipality, and it is able to automatically record high-precision data concerning of air temperature, relative humidity, soil temperature and humidity, ground heat flux, total solar and photosynthetic active radiation, wind velocity and turbulence, precipitation etc. The meteorological and micro-meteorological data will be recorded in a ten-minute time step.

On Friday, 19 of April 2019, at the “Eleftherios Venizelos” Hall in Loggia, the Mayor of Heraklion Mr. Vasilis Lambrinos, sealed the Participation of the Municipality in the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, implementing the relevant decision of the Municipal Council.

Signing the Covenant of Mayors, the Municipality of Heraklion started to promote actions and measures to improve the city’s energy efficiency, to increase the use of renewable energy sources and reduce CO2 emissions by at least 40% by 2030.

Given the opportunity the Mayor said that the Municipality of Heraklion has already updated the Sustainable Energy Plan, in order to address the impacts of climate change, to reduce the environmental footprint and enhance energy efficiency.

The signing of the Covenant of Mayors is an important milestone for the project Promoting urban integration of GReen INfrastructure to improve climate governance in cities (LIFE17GIC_GR_000029).

More Information for the Covenant of Mayors: https://www.eumayors.eu/