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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Climate action and the just transition — where does culture and heritage fit? On 23 September, during UN High-Level Week in New York, Secretary-General António Guterres convened the High-level Event on Climate Action and the Just Transition.

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jenny hay @ajennyh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Starting now: Introducing the Heritage Now! Campaign with @climateheritage.bsky.social and @savingplaces.bsky.social ❤️ heritagenowcampaign.org/campaign-eve...

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Campaign Events — Heritage Now!

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Uplifted & stimulated after a week at the 2026 US National Adaptation Forum & especially thankful for the passion & wisdom of my culture & heritage colleagues & for the support of the Mellon Foundation for #HeritageAdapts US Leader Circle attendees. Our communities need this work! #ClimateHeritage

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Are you in Pittsburgh for the National Adaptation Forum? Come to our #climateheritage session tomorrow afternoon at 3:45 pm! Our Heritage, Our Future: Frontline Communities Share Stories of Heritage-based Strategies for Locally-Led Adaptation

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Don't forget to register for this week's webinar: Transforming Libraries from Quiet Repositories of Books into Active Climate Futures Lab! www.climateheritage.org/press/webina...

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

1/ Webinar 30 April 2026: Transforming Libraries from Quiet Repositories of Books into Active Climate Futures Labs Explore how libraries can move beyond their traditional role as information repositories to become active spaces for climate learning, experimentation, and community engagement

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jenny hay @ajennyh.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Up early for a webinar with the High Level Champions and leaders of COP30 and COP31. Culture is a critical part of the pathway to accelerate solutions in this era of implementation. @climateheritage.bsky.social is part of several of the almost 500 plans in the action agenda!

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Event opportunity this week: Built-Environment Talks: People, Place, Purpose Environmental Ethics in Rural and Urban Contexts Join us to Enhance Knowledge-informed Practices! Thursday, January 29 2pm Lagos time (1 pm GMT) Link to join: us02web.zoom.us/j/8259064197...

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

CHN leaders in Brazil advocated tirelessly for culture-based climate solutions at #COP30. Moussa Elimane Sall took a moment to reflect on his experience with a call to action to leverage this momentum to insist "Climate action without culture is incomplete." www.linkedin.com/pulse/chn-fr...

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CHN Francophone Coordinator shares his thoughts as we approach the conclusion of COP30

Remarks from Moussa Elimane Sall "From my humble first reading of the UAE–Belém outcome, one thing is unmistakable: we finally have a concrete tool to advance global adaptation (and cultural heritage)...

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Starting now: Culture, Heritage, and Climate Change! 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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jenny hay @ajennyh.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I am not in Brazil but I can gratefully confirm that the @climateheritage.bsky.social team on the ground there is safe. #cop30

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This week the event "Culture, Heritage and Climate Change: a look from Latin America" will take place on November 21, at the Amazon Museum (Belém, Para, Brazil)! The meeting will be hybrid with simultaneous translation into English and Spanish. #COP30 🔗 Registration and info: abre.ai/culturapatri...

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Culture at the Heart of Climate Action Highlights from Week 1 Members of the Climate Heritage Network are making a powerful impact at #COP30 in Belém. These CHN leaders are showing that heritage and culture are essential for climate resilience, justice, and decarbonization. #climateheritage 1/

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Dispatch from Simon Musasizi, Regional Co-Chair for the Africa and Arab States, who is in Barcelona this week for @uclg.bsky.social Culture Summit and @unesco.org #Mondiacult.

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The Ministers of culture from the UAE, Brazil, and Spain as well as Princess Dana Firas of Jordan, sit at a table with white linen, microphones, and paper cards indicating their affiliation.

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

"Culture- those distinctively human endeavors that create meaning in our lives, inform our identities, & help define the values of our communities- CULTURE belongs at the heart of climate action & WE WILL NOT WAIT" @ajennyh.bsky.social, CHN North America Coordinator @uclg.bsky.social Climate Summit

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

"Culture is not a passive victim of climate change; Culture is an active driver of solutions." Isaac Eseet, Coordinator for CHN's Africa and Arab States Region, speaking this morning at the @uclg.bsky.social Climate Summit in Barcelona #climateheritage #cop30 #wemaketomorrow #imaginingfutures

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Julie's Bicycle @juliesbicycle.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

This week we're off to Barcelona for Mondiacult 2025. As the world’s biggest cultural policy conference, we’ll be amplifying the #WeMakeTomorrow Global Call to a wide array of policy makers, artists, activists & cultural practitioners. Grab yourself a sticker or business card from one of our team.

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"Preservation as climate action - is our moral imperative. ... The good news is that it’s happening." Last week, CHN attended the National Trust for Historic Preservation annual conference, #PastForward.

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Carl sits on a stage in a chair wearing a light gray blazer in front of a projection screen displaying his name as well as Jim Lindberg's name. Jim is sitting to his left in a gray suit holding a microphone in his hand.

Carl stands in front of a projection screen, gesturing to the audience with his hands. On the screen are the words Comfort = Design + Operability, images of people, historic windows, and historic art, and Robyn Pender.

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Any US-based preservationists heading to the National Trust conference? Come grab a sticker and chat with the North America Coordinator!

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Join our hybrid side events at Africa Climate Summit 2! These free events are made possible by our generous supporters. Links in 🧵 @icomos.bsky.social @ifla.org @cop30brazil.bsky.social @juliesbicycle.bsky.social #climateheritage #cop30 #culture4climate

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Mobilizing Culture and Heritage for Climate Resilience
African Solutions from the Ground Up - Highlighting indigenous knowledge, local practices, and heritage-based adaptation strategies
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Heritage in Climate Policy
Aligning NDCs with Culture-Based Adaptation - Focusing on the integration of cultural heritage into African climate strategies and finance frameworks
ICOMOS / Climate Heritage Network / IFLA / COP30 Brasil

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

📣Le Réseau patrimoine climatique sollicite des propositions de personnes et d'entreprises qualifiées pour élaborer un plan d'action à court terme et un plan stratégique à long terme pour l'organisation ! Date limite de dépôt des propositions : 19 septembre.

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

📣 The Climate Heritage Network seeks proposals from qualified individuals and firms to complete a near-term action plan and long-term strategic plan for the organization! Proposals due by September 19. Details here: www.climateheritage.org/press/reques...

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

📆 Early registration deadline TOMORROW! The second edition of the International Congress on Culture in Climate Action will be held virtually on September 17, 18, and 19, 2025. More: www.even3.com.ar/e/congreso-i... #climateaction #climateheritage #culture4climate #cop30

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Congreso Internacional de Cultura en Accion Climatica
Congresso Internacional de Cultura em Acao Climatica
International Congress of Culture in Climate Action

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Time-sensitive call to action: SB62 Sign on to the Heritage Adapts to Climate Alliance Position Paper before Thursday, June 26 at 5 pm Bonn time (CEST) docs.google.com/document/d/1... Urgent updates from the UNFCCC June Climate Meetings (SB62) via @preservinglegacies.bsky.social 1/

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Position Paper Sign On HACA.docx

CHN - HACA Position Paper Sign-on Instructions: The Position Paper on Work to Develop Indicators to Measure Progress Under Thematic 9g and other Culture-Related Provisions of the Global Goal on Adap...

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Next week, join us as we organize in response to the threats to our shared #climateheritage values. We are stronger together. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #climateaction #handsoff

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🌍 EARTH DAY EVENT 2025 🌍 📄 Youth Voices for Climate Action & Cultural Heritage: A Virtual Dialogue ✨ Join @climateheritage.bsky.social & #YOUNGO for an online, youth-led conversation on climate action & cultural heritage 🌿🏛 🗓 April 22, 2025 🕙 10:00 AM CEST 🔗 Register: bit.ly/42MTiUC

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

In recognition of Earth Day, join us next week for a free webinar! #climateheritage #greensky #cop30 #climateaction Youth Voices for Climate Action and Cultural Heritage: A Virtual Dialogue More details and registration here: climateheritage.squarespace.com/press/chn-yo...

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CHN Youth Forum co-hosts Earth Day Virtual Event — Climate Heritage Network

Youth Voices for Climate Action and Cultural Heritage: A Virtual Dialogue

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🧵Just released: Athens Declaration on Culture-Based Climate Actions, a timely reminder in advance of #COP30 & #Mondiacult ’25 of the urgent need to fill the culture gap in climate action, via the 4th Intl Conf TMM-CH & #EuropaNostra 🔗 tmm-ch.com/files/tee/20... Some highlights⬇️ #ClimateHeritage

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Hot off the presses - #YOUNGO Arts, Culture, and Heritage Working Group looks ahead to #COP30, from the desk of CHN Youth Forum Co-convener for the Africa and Arab States region! #climateheritage

Road to COP30
Time to integrate culture and heritage perspectives into global climate agendas
About the Author
Darius Saviour Ankamah
Youth Climate Negotiator
CHN Youth Forum Co-Convener for Africa and the Arab States
Contact Point for YOUNGO ACH WG
Culture and Heritage in Global Climate Agendas
Culture and heritage play a vital role in fulfilling the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Cultural heritage, including both tangible and intangible aspects, is deeply intertwined with the climate crisis, possessing traditional knowledge and practices that can inform climate resilience and adaptation strategies, while also being closely tied to community and socio-cultural systems that influence human behaviour and relationships with the environment.
Moreover, natural heritage sites, such as UNESCO World Heritage forests, are crucial carbon sinks, storing approximately 13 billion tonnes of carbon and absorbing around 190 million tonnes of CO2 per year; however, these forests face alarming threats, having lost 3.5 million hectares between 2001 and 2020, highlighting the need to integrate cultural and natural heritage into climate action, enhance climate resilience, foster sustainable development, and support climate justice (UNESCO).

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Anticipated Climate Heritage Discussions at COP30
Discussions surrounding climate heritage have gained momentum in recent COP conferences, with significant developments leading up to COP30.
At COP28 in 2023, the ‘Group of Friends of Culture-Based Climate Action’ was established and co-chaired by the United Arab Emirates and Brazil. This coalition, comprising over 30 ministers and government representatives, emphasizes integrating culture, arts, heritage, and creative industries into climate strategies. The groups formation reflects a growing recognition of culture’s role in climate action (UNESCO).
Building on this, the second High-Level Ministerial Dialogue on Culture-Based Climate Action convened at COP29 in 2024. Supported by UNESCO, ministers worldwide underscored the urgency of safeguarding cultural heritage from climate impacts and leveraging it for climate resilience. The dialogue concluded with a communique advocating for intensified integration of cultural perspectives into global climate agendas (European Heritage Hub).
Despite these efforts, COP29’s final conclusions di dnot include requests for UNFCCC workshops on culture and heritage issues in 2025, leading to disappointment among advocates. This outcome has shifted focus to COP30 in Belem, Brazil, where there is renewed hope for formalizing culture-based climate action within UNFCCC frameworks (Europa Nostra).

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Relevance of Belem to Cultural Heritage
Belem, the capital of Para state in northern Brazil, is a gateway to the Amazon rainforest and boasts a rich cultural heritage blending indigenous, African, and Portuguese influences. The city’s historical significance as a colonial port and its vibrant traditions in music, cuisine, and festivals highlight its cultural diversity. Hosting COP30 in Belem underscores the intrinsic link between cultural heritage and environmental conservation, especially in the Amazon region.
However, Belem faces challenges, including pollution, untreated sewage, and high crime rates. Preparations for COP30 involve major projects like the Parque da Cidade and new hotel developments to address infrastructure deficits. Local nonprofits are advocating for sustainable solutions, such as restoring natural riverbanks to combat flooding, reflecting the city’s commitment to harmonizing cultural preservation with environmental sustainability (AP News).
COP30 is poised to be a pivotal platform for advancing culture-based climate action, with Belem’s rich cultural backdrop offering a poignant setting to highlight the synergy between cultural heritage and climate resilience (European Heritage Hub).

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Read @preservinglegacies.bsky.social blog post introducing 12 new heritage places & practices in its 2025 cohort! 🌍✨ Discover how communities around the world are protecting what matters most and adapting to the threats of climate change. 🔗 www.heritageadapts.org/post/2025-ne... #ClimateHeritage

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Happening now: Urban Sustainability Exchange (USE) Digital Citymakers' Summit 2025! Catch CHN in Session E, Heritage, Climate Change and Sustainable Development. Registration is free! use.metropolis.org/newsroom/dig...

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Digital Citymakers' Summit 2025: Panel Discussion and Network Sessions

Find out more about the Digital Citymakers' Summit 2025 Panel Discussion and Network Sessions

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

CHN Field Notes from March: 🌱 @iclei.org and @africa.iclei.org announce the first Race to Resilience Culture cohort! 🌟 @preservinglegacies.bsky.social kicks off HACA Community Leaders Circle across the US & Togo! 🏙️ Built Buildings Lab advocates for heritage based decarbonization at GlobalABC!

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The #AR7 report outlines adopted by @ipcc.bsky.social markedly expand coverage of culture & heritage -- but to realize that potential, the IPCC will now need authors & reviewers with culture expertise. Deadline: 17 April! Learn more: preservinglegacies.circle.so/c/haca-resou... #climateheritage

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Culture and Heritage in AR7 Action Alert | Preserving Legacies

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Green transformation & climate impacts can reorder/disrupt populations, intersecting with other social change. Excited to speak to heritage’s role at “EU Enlargement: Cultural Heritage as a Key Resource,” 3-4 April in Budva ME & online. 🔗 www.europeanheritagehub.eu/registration... #ClimateHeritage

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The third European Heritage Hub forum will take place in Budva, Montenegro, from 3-4 April 2025. This edition will focus on social transformation, highlighting the vital role of cultural heritage in f...

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🎉 Proud Preserving Legacies moment! A great shout-out to HACA at the #UNFCCC expert meeting under the #UAE-Belémworkprogram on indicators in Bonn. Catch the importance of the work we are doing with Heritage Adapts to Climate Alliance (HACA) 👉 www.youtube.com/live/gm2B87I...

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Day 1: GGA: Expert meeting under the UAE-Belém work programme on indicators

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Highlights from the cultural heritage presentation at today’s 3rd UNFCCC UAE-Belém work programme on adaptation indicators expert meeting in Bonn. Heritage is a gap in existing indicators which must be filled to scale up adaptation of our heritage to climate change. #HACA #ClimateHeritage #GGA

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It would be a useful exercise for the cultural heritage community to estimate the current value of loss and damage to culture & heritage from climate change and then commute the allocable share of that damage to each of these 122 responsible parties. #ClimateHeritage

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

📣Heritage & climate adaptation alert: the UAE-Belem Work Programme on adaptation indicators is entering an intense phase in advance of June's #SB62 where draft indicators (incl for measuring progress in adapting heritage sites & cultural practices) are expected to be finalized🧵 #ClimateHeritage #GGA

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Watch this space for a more formal event announcement soon! Want to join the CHN Youth Forum? Email youth.climateheritagenetwork@gmail.com!

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Many bright spots where the power of arts, culture, and heritage to catalyze climate action seems implicitly referenced. What stood out to you? 1/4 #climateheritage #cop30 cop30.br/en/brazilian...

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First Letter from the President of COP30, Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

A valuable point from #ClimateHeritage Network on #InternationalWomensDay: “One key gender-differentiated impact of climate change is the risk of loss to intangible heritage incl traditional ecological knowledge, for which women are the custodians in many cultures” 🎯 🔗 www.climateheritage.org/women

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Women and Gender — Climate Heritage Network

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Women can be powerful agents of change and drivers of #climateaction. Creating more opportunities for women is critical for developing effective and equitable strategies for responding to climate change. #InternationalWomensDay www.climateheritage.org/women

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Women and Gender — Climate Heritage Network

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Julie's Bicycle @juliesbicycle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Are you working in or with the cultural sector & exploring how to build local resilience to climate change? Join our peer-sharing session on 19 Mar to share insights & learnings with others in the sector. Spaces are limited so submit your expression of interest before 7 Mar >> tinyurl.com/yeysb6s7

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cms @camillemarys.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

CFP: Decolonizing Climate Action in Heritage at the 17th Annual Heritage Conservation Symposium @carletonu.bsky.social. Deadline for abstracts: March 1. #ClimateHeritage #Heritage4Climate carleton.ca/heritage-con...

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Interested in collaborating with #ClimateHeritage colleagues working to implement the new UNFCCC Global Goal on Adaptation thematic target on protecting heritage sites & cultural practices from climate risks? Join the Heritage Adapts to Climate Alliance! #HACA #GGA 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/17Xp...

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