Statement of the Climate Heritage Network on the Draft Mondiacult Final Declaration
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“While it is encouraging to see the reference to climate change in the draft Mondiacult Final Declaration, the Climate Heritage Network feel that the text falls short of what is needed in the face of the climate emergency. The climate emergency and the threat it is posing to the planet, its peoples, their cultures and heritage, calls for an ambitious vision for how cultural policy can help people imagine and realise low carbon, just, climate resilient futures; and achieve climate resilient sustainable development.
We continue to urge culture ministers to do more to provide the guidance, leadership, and decisions required to unlock the power of culture, from arts to heritage, to enable transformative climate action. The members of the Climate Heritage Network stand ready to support and collaborate with any and all ministries, public bodies, operators and actors who believe, as we do, that culture is a climate issue and climate is a culture issue.”