The Climate Heritage Network (CHN) has announced the launch of the “Imagining Low Carbon, Just, Climate Resilient Futures Through Culture and Heritage” project, made possible by a generous $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This transformative initiative aims to leverage culture and heritage as powerful catalysts for effective climate action, empowering communities worldwide to safeguard their cultural legacies while promoting sustainable futures.

The Climate Heritage Network (CHN) is a global network of more than 250 member organisations committed to supporting communities in achieving the ambitions of the Paris Agreement by scaling up culture-based climate action. The new Action Plan announced today by the network of organisations, charities, government bodies, universities, memory and cultural institutions, and cultural and creative industries from around the world seeks to fill this gap.

The long awaited International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change (ICSM CHC) has arrived! This groundbreaking meeting will be of interest to anyone concerned about the better incorporation of culture and heritage into climate science and research.

The Climate Heritage Network is pleased to announce new members of the Network. The announcement was first made on 15 February 2021 at a meeting of the network’s International Steering Committee.

The Climate Heritage Network is pleased to announce new members of the Network. The announcement was first made on 14 September meeting of the network’s International Steering Committee.

The Climate Heritage Network is pleased to announce that an additional 26 organisations have become network members. The announcement was first made on 27 July, 2020, at a meeting of the network’s International Steering Committee.

The Climate Heritage Network is pleased to announce that an additional 15 organisations have become network members. The announcement was first made on 27 April, 2020, at a meeting of the network’s International Steering Committee.

The Climate Heritage Network is pleased to announce that an additional 45 organisations have become network members. The announcement was first made on 11 February, 2020, at a meeting of the network’s International Steering Committee held in Abu Dhabi, UAE during the 10th World Urban Forum (WUF10) organised by UN-Habitat, the United Nations’ cities and human settlements program.

The immense potential of cultural heritage to drive just and transformative climate action often goes untapped. World Urban Forum 10 broke new ground in the global recognition of this potential, boosting efforts to mobilise arts, culture and heritage for climate action across the globe.

Cultural heritage is both impacted by climate change and an important part of strategies for driving climate action.  So, where does the cultural heritage community stand now in terms of engaging on climate change, where do we want to go and how do we get there?  The USA’s Smithsonian Institution is putting the focus squarely on these urgent questions at a two-day symposium entitled ‘Stemming the Tide: Global Strategies for Sustaining Cultural Heritage Through Climate Change.’ The event will be held 5-6 March 2020 in Washington, DC.

The newly formed Climate Heritage Network released its first action plan to help mobilise arts, culture and heritage for climate action at an event held in Madrid at COP25, the 2019 UN Climate Summit. Dubbed the Madrid-to-Glasgow Arts, Culture and Heritage Climate Action Plan, its release kicks off a year of culture-based climate action that will culminate in 2020 at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Organisations across the arts, culture and heritage sector are being called on to take urgent action against climate change as a new international network launches in Edinburgh today (Thursday 24 Oct, 2019) at an event hosted by Historic Environment Scotland (HES).