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Time too tight on June 23 to catch up on ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ at #IHBCSwansea2023?
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Posted on 02/06/2023 by IHBC
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On 23 June the IHBC hosts a targeted examination into  ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’, with current thinking from lead practitioners, funders, researchers & bodies across the UK, so if you are too busy to even drop in live … Continue reading →

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NW Branch Conference update and review: Adapting to Climate Change, key conclusions, challenges and priorities, because it’s ‘NOT IF, BUT HOW’

Posted on 30/05/2023 by IHBC
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The IHBC North West (NW) Branch’s recent conference on ‘Adapting to Climate Change, key conclusions & challenges’, held in Chester Cathedral on 27 April, voiced the need to find common ground between heritage regulation and change under climate change, concluding … Continue reading →

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IHBC welcomes address by Welsh Government Deputy Minister Dawn Bowden MS to #IHBCSwansea2023 – ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ – 23 June, in Swansea and online

Posted on 23/05/2023 by IHBC
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The IHBC warmly welcomes the agreement by Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, Dawn Bowden MS to address Day School delegates – in Swansea and online – at the IHBC’s 2023 Annual School: ‘Climate Change the Historic … Continue reading →

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IHBC welcomes address by Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, Dawn Bowden MS, to the 2023 Day School – ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ – 23 June, in Swansea and online: #IHBCSwansea2023

Posted on 12/05/2023 by IHBC
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The IHBC warmly welcomes the agreement by Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, Dawn Bowden MS to address Day School delegates – in Swansea and online – at the IHBC’s 2023 Annual School: ‘Climate Change the Historic … Continue reading →

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Wales’ Deputy Minister for Climate Change Written Statement on Menai Suspension Bridge Works

Posted on 12/05/2023 by IHBC
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Lee Waters MS, Deputy Minister for Climate Change, has made a Written Statement on the Menai Suspension Bridge Hanger Works (Phase 2) – Trial. image: for illustration – By Reading Tom from Reading, UK – The Menai Suspension Bridge, CC … Continue reading →

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Climate change has arrived, yet the country is still strikingly unprepared: Statutory & independent Climate Change Committee

Posted on 28/04/2023 by IHBC
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The UK’s first 40C day, in summer 2022, was the clearest indication that climate change has arrived in this country, reports The Climate Change Committee, the independent, statutory body established under the Climate Change Act of 2008.

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IHBC 2023 School – #IHBCSwansea2023 – open for booking: ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ online and in Swansea, 21-24 June 2023

Posted on 19/04/2023 by IHBC
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IHBC’s Council on 30 March saw the booking open for our 2023 Annual School, #IHBCSwansea2023, examining ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’, offering current thinking on addressing climate change in the historic environment, with up to 4 days of IHBC-recognised … Continue reading →

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IHBC 2023 School – #IHBCSwansea2023 – open for booking: ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ online and in Swansea, 21-24 June 2023

Posted on 14/04/2023 by IHBC
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IHBC’s Council on 30 March saw the booking open for our 2023 Annual School, #IHBCSwansea2023, examining ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’, offering current thinking on addressing climate change in the historic environment, with up to 4 days of IHBC-recognised … Continue reading →

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IHBC 2023 School launched: #IHBCSwansea2023 booking opens for ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment; Resilience and Performance’, in-person and online, 21-24 June 2023

Posted on 04/04/2023 by IHBC
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IHBC’s Council on 30 March saw the booking open for our 2023 Annual School, #IHBCSwansea2023, examining ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’, offering current thinking on addressing climate change in the historic environment, with up to 4 days of IHBC-recognised … Continue reading →

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IHBC 2023 School launched: #IHBCSwansea2023 booking opens for ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment; Resilience and Performance’, in-person and online, 21-24 June 2023

Posted on 31/03/2023 by IHBC
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IHBC’s Council on 30 March saw the booking open for our 2023 Annual School, #IHBCSwansea2023, examining ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’, offering current thinking on addressing climate change in the historic environment, with up to 4 days of IHBC-recognised … Continue reading →

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Revised Draft National Planning Framework (NPF4) for Scotland… to ‘help combat climate change’

Posted on 13/12/2022 by IHBC
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A revised Draft National Planning Framework for Scotland – the ‘National Planning Framework A Spatial plan for Scotland to 2045’ – has been published by Scottish Government and is designed to help combat climate change.

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EU Cultural Heritage report: ‘Threatened by climate change but sustainable solutions help fight it’

Posted on 18/11/2022 by IHBC
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An EU group of experts has published a report on cultural heritage resilience for climate change: ‘Strengthening cultural heritage resilience for climate change. Where the European Green Deal meets cultural heritage’.

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English Heritage on ‘Climate change risk to coastal castles’

Posted on 01/11/2022 by IHBC
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Castles that have stood for hundreds of years are at risk of being damaged by climate change, conservation charity English Heritage warns.

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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Free Climate Change webinars from HE – ‘Lessons from the Global South’ – to Council & #IHBC25

Posted on 18/10/2022 by IHBC
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IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features the IHBC’s NewsBlog that welcomes the new COP27 ‘Climate Wednesdays’ … Continue reading →

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IHBC welcomes HE’s COP27 ‘Climate Wednesdays’: Free ‘Climate Change & Heritage’ webinars with ‘Lessons from the Global South’

Posted on 04/10/2022 by IHBC
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The IHBC warmly welcomes Historic England’s (HE’s) new series of Climate Wednesdays, linked to COP27: Responding to the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Global South. image: for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0

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POSTPONEMENT OF IHBC’s North West Branch Conference 2022: Adapting to Climate Change: Heritage and its Sustainable Future

Posted on 27/09/2022 by IHBC
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The IHBC’s North West Branch regrets that its ever popular annual conference, this year looking at climate change and sustainability, has had to be postponed. Due to be held on 5th October 2022 at Chester Cathedral arrangements are underway for … Continue reading →

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Celebrate Scotland’s Climate week (from 26/09) with an Engine Shed ‘Short Guide’ on ‘Climate Change Adaptation…’

Posted on 17/09/2022 by IHBC
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Scotland’s Climate week starts on Monday 26 September and Scotland’s ‘Engine Shed’ has produced a Short Guide about how to enhance and upgrade key aspects of a traditional building. These could provide protection against the elements.

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New IHBC Branch CPD 2022: NW hosts ‘Adapting to Climate Change’, 5/10/22, Chester Cathedral, inc. tours etc.

Posted on 19/08/2022 by IHBC
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The IHBC North West (NW) Branch is hosting a full day of conservation talks, tours and discussions on ‘Adapting to Climate Change: Heritage and its Sustainable Future’ at Chester Cathedral on 5 October, with fees from £100 including lunch etc.

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Paris’s Iconic Wallace Fountains Get a Second Life to mark their 150 anniversary – and respond to climate change too

Posted on 16/07/2022 by IHBC
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On their 150th anniversary, many of the historic Wallace drinking fountains will be outfitted with a misting function, as the city looks to prepare residents for more intense urban heat. image: for illustration purposes only – By David Monniaux – … Continue reading →

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5 historical U.S. landmarks threatened by climate change

Posted on 01/07/2022 by IHBC
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America’s historic monuments – both natural landmarks and human-built structures – draw millions each year to witness and pay tribute to a simultaneously rich and painful heritage, but these physical markers are at risk from the effects of a changing … Continue reading →

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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Fife’s historic buildings, ‘deteriorating due to climate change’, are closed

Posted on 27/05/2022 by IHBC
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A councillor has criticised the decision to close so many of Fife’s historic attractions at the same time as ‘short-sighted’, reports The Dunfermline Press. image: for illustration purposes only – Dunfermline Palace by Chiswick Chap, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via … Continue reading →

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IPCC report ‘Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change’ published

Posted on 09/04/2022 by IHBC
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) has published its latest report ‘Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change’, which indicates that… ‘we can halve emissions by 2030’. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence V3.0

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HE launches Heritage and Climate Change Strategy, and more… and seeks feedback too

Posted on 25/03/2022 by IHBC
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Historic England (HE) has published its Heritage and Climate Change Strategy alongside its Carbon Reduction Plan, setting out how it will decarbonise its own operations by 2040, while also seeking feedback.

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Climate Heritage Network’s survey on Gender and Climate Change

Posted on 11/03/2022 by IHBC
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Climate Heritage Network (CHN) members were invited to provide inputs to the UN’s climate agency (the UNFCCC) consultation regarding Gender and Climate Change. Closing [today] 11/03.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: New role for historic Yorkshire Dales mill in the fight against climate change

Posted on 25/02/2022 by IHBC
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The historic Gayle Mill is to develop its role in demonstrating the decarbonisation of old buildings, thanks to grant funding, reports the Darlington and Stockton Times. image: Gayle Mill, Yorkshire by Lobsan – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24738679

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