{"id":47402,"date":"2026-07-21T15:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47402"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:01:42","slug":"bring-built-heritage-into-the-heart-of-climate-policy-with-heritage-now-join-the-global-campaign-and-explore-the-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47402","title":{"rendered":"Bring built heritage into the heart of climate policy with Heritage Now: Join the Global Campaign and Explore the Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heritage Now! is a global campaign to harness the potential of built heritage for a resilient, climate positive and just future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heritage Now writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Most attention in policy is going to new buildings, but the majority of carbon emissions today are associated with operating the buildings that already exist.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most climate policy treats heritage as an afterthought, but heritage solutions apply to most of the built environment, including new buildings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most climate solutions in the building sector are firmly rooted in technical knowledge, but heritage offers proven alternative approaches that inspire people to action through culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heritage Now! promotes Heritage-Informed Decarbonization. Heritage-Informed Decarbonization applies wisdom, practices, and built places of the past to minimize greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment in the present and future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recommendations for Heritage-Informed Decarbonization<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Climate action is both a technological and cultural challenge, and built heritage is uniquely placed to unite technological and cultural solutions. Heritage-informed decarbonization both directly reduces greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment and catalyzes needed cultural shifts to reimagine a sustainable and resilient future.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learn from the greatest living laboratory for climate adaptation \u2013 the existing built environment.: The places that make up built heritage both illustrate how human habitation has responded to climate over millennia and provide a unique test bed for integrating old and new climate technologies for future climate adaptation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prioritize continued building (re)use and care: There is no pathway to a liveable climate without addressing existing buildings. Heritage-informed approaches to (re)use both avoid embodied emissions of new construction while reducing operational emissions of existing buildings and preserve sense of place.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implement place-based solutions to build, maintain, and live sustainably: From bio-based, local materials to context-specific passive comfort strategies, heritage both offers scientifically-supported lessons for low-carbon design, construction, maintenance, and use and fosters a culture of care that passes down local practices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reframe building waste as a resource: Heritage construction and maintenance practices around the world are founded in circularity both demonstrating how to extend the use of buildings and materials and supporting a marketplace that sees resources in place of waste.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Include heritage and indigenous voices in climate policymaking: The inclusion of heritage perspectives in decision-making both connects planning and policy with vital knowledge of how to build in balance with the environment and engages communities in the all-of-society response needed to address climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/heritagenowcampaign.org\">https:\/\/heritagenowcampaign.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Now! is a global campaign to harness the potential of built heritage for a resilient, climate positive and just future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[784,927,27,926],"class_list":["post-47402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-built-heritage","tag-climate-action","tag-construction","tag-sustaibability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47403,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47402\/revisions\/47403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}