Climate Outreach joins mobilisation to unite Cultural Heritage for Climate Action

The Summit will feature heads of state, mayors and regional leaders from around the world as well as companies, investors and citizens. The Mobilization is the first cultural heritage event of its kind to be organized at a major international climate change summit.

The Mobilization program will showcase key ways that cultural heritage — tangible and intangible — can help communities achieve their climate targets. This includes heritage-based carbon mitigation strategies like promoting the reuse of existing buildings and the sensitive retrofitting of older and historic buildings for energy efficiency.

It will also underscore the important role heritage plays in enhancing adaptive capacity and reducing the vulnerability of communities, from building social cohesion to guiding resilience planning. The role of culture and heritage as a vector for climate communication, justice, science and research will also be explored.

The Mobilization will support the launch of California’s new Cultural Resources Climate Change Task Force. It will also witness the launch of a new international Climate Heritage Network, a mutual support network of city, state/provincial, regional and tribal historic preservation offices (together with related NGOs, universities and other organizations) committed to aid their jurisdictions in tackling climate change and achieving the ambitions of the Paris Agreement. The Network is expected to create an effective platform for advancing the Climate Change and Cultural Heritage agenda in international climate policy processes.

The Mobilization is being hosted by the California Historical Society and will be livestreamed through a collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and live tweeted by @ClimateHeritage. More information is available at www.climateheritage.org.