{"id":24869,"date":"2019-12-17T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=24869"},"modified":"2019-12-17T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T17:55:31","slug":"ihbc-reaffirms-commitment-to-climate-heritage-network-noting-the-new-madrid-to-glasgow-arts-culture-and-heritage-climate-action-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=24869","title":{"rendered":"IHBC reaffirms commitment to Climate Heritage Network, noting the new \u2018Madrid-to-Glasgow Arts, Culture and Heritage Climate Action Plan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Following the IHBC\u2019s support for the highly successful Edinburgh launch of the Climate Heritage Network<\/a> \u2013 the Institute has re-affirmed its commitment to the Network and its objectives, while noting also the newly-published Action Plan, the Madrid-to-Glasgow Arts, Culture and Heritage Climate Action Plan<\/a>.<\/h3>\n
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IHBC Chair David McDonald said: \u2018We are delighted that the IHBC\u2019s Board – advised by our Policy Committee and its two lead panels, on \u2018Technical\u2019 and \u2018Green\u2019 issues \u2013 has reaffirmed its commitment to advancing the Network.\u00a0 It will deliver on\u00a0 this commitment by supporting the delivery of the Network\u2019s recently launched Action Plan<\/em><\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The IHBC is been keen to build on the sector leadership demonstrated in our support for the Network\u2019s recent launch in Edinburgh.\u00a0 That included hosting a stand there, and a presentation by our Technical Panel lead, John Edwards, on the updated Guidance Note<\/em><\/a> from the IHBC\u2019s ToolBox<\/a> on the Retrofitting of Traditional Buildings<\/a>. We can now follow that up with a commitment to contributing proactively to the Network\u2019s Action Plan<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n

IHBC Policy Secretary Roy Lewis said: \u2018The IHBC is fully committed to engaging closely with the Climate Heritage Network and the delivery of its Action Plan.\u00a0 <\/strong>The Policy Committee is especially keen to target specific priority issues that we identified there, including around managing cultural and heritage values through planning.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The Committee will look in particular to the advice of the Committee\u2019s \u2018Green\u2019 and \u2018Technical\u2019 panels – ably led by Crispin Edwards and John Edwards respectively \u2013 to advise in detail on how we can best assist in delivering the Action Plan<\/em>\u2019s agreed outcomes, once the panels have had the opportunity to review the arrangements.’<\/p>\n

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CNH writes:<\/p>\n

MADRID, Spain, 5 Dec \u2013 The newly formed Climate Heritage Network released its first action plan to help mobilise arts, culture and heritage for climate action at an event held in Madrid at COP25, the 2019 UN Climate Summit. Dubbed the Madrid-to-Glasgow Arts, Culture and Heritage Climate Action Plan<\/a>, its release kicks off a year of culture-based climate action that will culminate in 2020 at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Madrid event took place in the COP25 pavilion of the United Kingdom, host of COP26.<\/p>\n

The immense potential of cultural heritage to drive climate action and support just transitions by communities towards low carbon, climate resilient futures often goes untapped.\u00a0 The Climate Heritage Network was launched in October 2019 by over 70 arts, culture and heritage organisations from around the world committed to flipping this paradigm by emphasizing the role arts, culture and heritage can play in achieving the ambitions of the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n

The new Madrid-to-Glasgow Arts, Culture and Heritage Climate Action Plan<\/a> aims to help deliver on this result via eight scalable, culture-based climate action tools and policy solutions.\u00a0 Several hundred people participated in the plan\u2019s development, beginning at the Climate Heritage Mobilization @ Global Climate Action Summit held in San Francisco in 2018. Over 200 participants helped refine the plan during the Climate Heritage Network\u2019s Global Launch event hosted by Historic Environment Scotland in Edinburgh on 24 October 2019.<\/p>\n

The Action Plan will be implemented on a volunteer basis by working groups comprised of CHN\u2019s members around the world. The resulting collaborations will bring together culture organization from across the globe and across the arts, culture and heritage spectrum in unique partnerships united by a common commitment to accelerate action on climate change.<\/p>\n

The first of the eight activities included in the Plan focuses on improving climate communications and aims to promote climate action through more effectively illustrating the potential for cultural heritage to address the challenges of climate change. It will be led by the UK\u2019s Institute of Conservation (Icon) with support from a coalition of organisations including the Union of Concerned Scientists, Historic Environment Scotland and the Built Environment Scotland Forum.<\/p>\n

A second activity co-led by the Indian National Trust for Arts and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), the University of California San Diego and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography will focus on making the cases for valuing traditional knowledge as part of climate change technology. The activity will be supported by the Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center, the US National Trust for Historic Preservation, Historic England and other cultural organisations from around the world.<\/p>\n

Another of the activities aims to address the role historic and most existing buildings can play in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the building sector.\u00a0 The California Office of Historic Preservation and the Zero Net Carbon Collaboration for Existing and Historic Buildings (ZNCC) will co-lead the activity which aims to gather data on GHG reduction benefits of building reuse and retrofit that could ultimately lead to the development of a tool for calculating GHG emissions reductions associated with building reuse and retrofit measures. The American Institute of Architects and other partners will also participate.<\/p>\n

The cultural dimensions of climate adaptation will also be a focus.\u00a0 The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) will lead an activity to recommend practices for mainstreaming culture into climate action plans and adaptation frameworks.\u00a0 The activity could include developing a data base of relevant provisions from local, regional and national climate plans that address the role of arts, culture or heritage, including provisions on respecting the cultural rights and knowledge of Indigenous Peoples. This activity also contributes to the European Union\u2019s Workplan for Culture 2019-22 and the European Commission\u2019s European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage, which for the first time contain a climate change cluster.<\/p>\n

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, will look at ways to better coordinate heritage safeguarding and climate action by promoting strong linkages to urban and territorial planning policies and impact assessment processes.\u00a0 Using culture to promote climate resilient sustainable development will be the subject of a companion activity led by United Cities and Local Government (UCLG) in connection with the global campaign of cultural networks (#culture2030goal) on culture in sustainable development.<\/p>\n

A key focus of COP25 is the review of the proposed two-year work plan developed for the UNFCCC Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP).\u00a0 LCIPP was formed to strengthen knowledge, technologies, practices and efforts of local communities and indigenous peoples related to addressing and responding to climate change. Another activity included in the Madrid-to-Glasgow Arts, Culture and Heritage Climate Action Plan is designed to support the cultural dimensions of the LCIPP. The activity will be led by the International Indian Treaty Council and the Chiang Mai City Arts and Cultural Centre.<\/p>\n

Climate change is one of the most significant and fastest growing threats to people and their cultural heritage worldwide. 2020 will be a critical year for climate action with new national climate plans known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) due under the Paris Agreement from the countries of the world. The Madrid-to-Glasgow Arts, Culture and Heritage Climate Action Plan aims to foreground the cultural dimensions of global climate action and to create a roadmap that will allow every arts, culture and heritage-related organization to do its part\u2026..<\/p>\n

What is the Climate Heritage Network?
\n<\/strong>The Climate Heritage Network is a voluntary, mutual support network of local and city, state\/provincial and regional, Indigenous Peoples\u2019, and national arts, culture and heritage governmental and quasi-governmental boards, offices, ministries and site management agencies as well as NGOs, universities, businesses and other organizations committed to aiding their communities in tackling climate change and achieving the ambitions of the Paris Agreement.\u00a0 Entities may join at http:\/\/climateheritage.org\/join\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more…..<\/a><\/p>\n

Download the Plan<\/a><\/p>\n

For\u00a0 more background see the\u00a0NewsBlog<\/a>\u00a0and for more background and links on climate search the IHBC NewsBlogs<\/a><\/p>\n

If you would like to learn more about the CHN, access the website<\/a><\/p>\n

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See the updated IHBC ToolBox<\/a> Guidance Note<\/em><\/a> on Retrofitting of Traditional Buildings<\/a><\/p>\n

See more Guidance Notes<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

See the IHBC\u2019s ToolBox<\/a><\/p>\n

To keep in touch with developments in the IHBC\u2019s 2022 Wales Branch-hosted Annual School, which will explore technical aspects of conservation, follow #IHBCSwansea2022<\/a>\u00a0for updates as soon as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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