Egypt is hosting the 2022 UN Climate Change conference, also known as COP27, in the red sea city of Sharm el-Sheikh, from 6-18 November and Climate Heritage Network (CHN) offers ‘5 Ways for Arts, Culture and Heritage Voices to Engage’.
… conference comes at a crucial point in humanity’s quest for transformative climate action…
CHN writes:
COP27 opens in less than two weeks and runs through 18 November. The conference comes at a crucial point in humanity’s quest for transformative climate action consistent with the 2015 Paris Agreement and the latest climate science. It also comes at a pivotal moment for Culture. COPs are one of the most important venues for climate policy making, but there has always been a culture-sized hole in their agendas. Last year at COP26 in Glasgow, culture made strides in filling this gap. See for example this great wrap up prepared by Creative Carbon Scotland as well as the CHN’s own COP26 report out.
COP27 presents an important opportunity to build on that work. Climate Heritage Network member organisations and partners have been working for almost a year on strategies to amplify arts, culture and heritage voices like yours in and around COP27: in Sharm el-Sheikh, across Egypt and the rest of the African continent, around the world, and online. Leadership has come from the CHN’s Culture at COP27 Working Group.
… the CHN is proud to launch Culture at COP27, a platform rich with actionable suggestions, tools, explainers, and open source assets. We hope this platform will aid you and every arts, culture and heritage operator, organisation, and institution to raise their voices on the critical issues being debated around the COP. Equally, by offering common themes and messages, we hope to help diverse cultural voices amplify each other and in that way strengthen culture’s message to a planet in crisis.
Current climate planning and policy is failing to keep 1.5°C alive or deliver transformative adaption — especially for the most vulnerable. It’s failing because it doesn’t help people imagine what plausible low carbon, just, climate resilient futures look like. Because it over emphasizes a narrow set of technological and market-based solution, and because many climate planning processes exclude diverse actors and ignore the diverse knowledge systems and world views they bring to the table.
Attention to the cultural dimensions of the climate crisis and the socio-cultural enabling conditions of transformative climate action is the corrective the world urgently needs. COP27 is an important venue to help make that happen – but only if we lend our voices now.
Visit the Culture at COP27 Platform and read on to find your own pathway to greater #climateheritage engagement….
#5 – Sign the Culture at COP Manifesto….
#4 – Join Culture at COP27 Events Live from Sharm el-Sheikh….
#3 – Join the Social Media Conversation on the Power of Culture to Accelerate Climate Action….
#2 – Bring Your Cultural Voice to the Urgent Climate Issues Being Debated at COP27….
#1 – Get Inspired by the African COP by following #AfricanHeritageVoicesCOP27….
