The Climate Heritage Network (CHN), the international network of which the IHBC is a member, has issued it February 2021 eNews, which offers updates on ‘news from the global effort to mobilise arts, culture & heritage for climate action’.
…2011-2020 will be the warmest decade on record…
… bridging the emissions gap will require new types of policies…
CHN latest ENews topics include:
- Open Call for African Colleagues: JOIN THE CVI-AFRICA PROJECT AND HELP DELIVER CLIMATE ACTION THROUGH CULTURAL HERITAGE
- Propose an Event at COP26: HELP BRINGS ART, CULTURE & HERITAGE VOICES TO THE 2021 UN CLIMATE SUMMIT
- Youth, Culture & Climate: VOLUNTEERS WANTED TO HELP PLAN A CHN EVENT AT THE 2021 PRE-COP
- Culture & Climate at the G20: CULTURE & HERITAGE FEATURED AT KEY MULTI-NATIONAL MEETING
- World Monuments Watch 2022: CENTERING THE CLIMATE CRISIS IN CULTURAL SAFEGUARDING
- Green Solutions Awards 2020-21: NOMINATE YOUR RENOVATION PROJECT!
- Frankenthaler Climate Initiative: GRANTS FOR CLEAN, EFFICIENT ENERGY IN U.S.A. VISUAL ARTS MUSEUMS
- Update on the CHN’s 2021 Fundraising Campaign
CHN writes:
A duo of new reports released at the end of 2020 underscored the vital importance of our shared work to connect culture to the global climate change response. With seas rising and Greenland’s ice sheet continuing to lose mass, the World Meteorological Organization’s 2020 State of the Global Climate report confirmed that 2011-2020 will be the warmest decade on record. Meanwhile, UN Environment’s new Emissions Gap Report 2020 concluded that despite a dip in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the COVID-19 economic slowdown, the world is still heading for a catastrophic temperature rise above 3°C this century.
But the UN Environment report also found something else: bridging the emissions gap will require new types of policies; policies that engage with notions of well-being and quality of life, rapid lifestyle transitions, and wider changes in social and cultural systems. In short, closing the emissions gap will take foregrounding the cultural dimensions of climate action. Across the globe, cultural innovators from arts to heritage are already doing just that. Supporting them and helping to scale up and out their efforts is exactly why the Climate Heritage Network was founded. CHN members are committed to realizing the potential of culture to support transformative climate action and in 2021 we will do just that — together. Join us!
