Thank you for signing the Global Call to put Culture at the Heart of Climate Action. Whether you signed the day we launched in 2023, or joined more recently, we are so grateful for your commitment to culture-based climate action! This is a refresher on the Global Call.
Climate Heritage Network writes:
[This is a] refresher on the Global Call: We launched the Global Call in 2023 to ask national governments’ climate negotiators to make decisions that put cultural heritage, arts and creative sectors at the heart of climate action. You signed this call as a commitment to ensuring that culture’s potential is recognised, allowing it to fully contribute to the climate solutions we so urgently need.
As previously reported, after initial success at COP28 in Dubai and despite enormous efforts by culture advocates, COP negotiators at COP29 in Baku failed to advance the Global Call’s core objective of addressing the culture gap in current international climate policy and planning. As a result, although culture is making real progress in the margins of COP30, it looks increasingly unlikely that negotiators will take up the Global Call’s request in Belém.
To achieve lasting impact and learn from these past experiences, the Global Call campaign has evolved under the banner of We Make Tomorrow. What will not change is the campaign’s commitment to bringing together artists and activists, creatives, designers, culture and heritage keepers, united in climate action.
Using COP30 as a springboard, We Make Tomorrow aims to deliver deeper and broader support for recognizing culture as a pillar of climate action in advance of the critical Second Global Stocktake (GST2) of progress on tackling climate change that commences at COP31 in 2026. We are extremely proud to have the support of the COP30 Presidency and Global Mutirão.
We Make Tomorrow will work alongside the Presidency and cultural leaders such as the COP30 Youth Climate Champion, Marcele Oliveira to showcase culture’s vital role in climate solutions.
