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Climate Heritage Network (CHN) has produced a \u2018Culture at COP27\u2019 dedicated web page.<\/h3>\nClimate Heritage Network (CHN) has produced a \u2018Culture at COP27\u2019 dedicated web page.<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
CHN writes:<\/p>\n
From November 6-18, the world\u2019s focus will be on the Red Sea city of Sharm el-Sheikh where the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt is hosting the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change \u2013 also known as COP27.<\/p>\n
This conference comes at a crucial point in humanity\u2019s 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<\/a>. Sharm el-Sheikh presents an important opportunity to build on that work.<\/p>\n \u00a0Climate Heritage Network members and partners have been working for almost a year on strategies to amplify arts, culture and heritage voices 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\u2019s Culture at COP27 Working Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Working Group\u2019s aims are to:<\/p>\n Current climate planning and policy is dangerously off course. 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 \u2013 especially when diverse cultural actors lend their unique voices.<\/p>\n\n