Online Masterclass on Climate Change Policy and Practice for Heritage Professionals
Europa Nostra is hosting to the online masterclass “Adapting Europe’s Cultural Heritage to a Rapidly Warming World: Climate Change Policy and Practice for Heritage Professionals” on Thursday 5 December 2024, from 15.00 to 16.30 CET.
This online masterclass is free-of-charge but registration is compulsory by Wednesday 4 December at 10:00 CET. Due to limited capacity, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible to secure your participation. You are welcome to extend this invitation to your colleagues. All registered participants will receive a zoom link on the eve of the event.
Credits: Europa Nostra
This online masterclass is organised in the frame of Europa Nostra’s network project European Cultural Heritage Agora “Empowering Europe’s Civil Society for Heritage”, which is supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. It is organised in cooperation with the Heritage Adapts to Climate Alliance (HACA), a joint project of Preserving Legacies and the Climate Heritage Network.
As climate change impacts grow, those who care for Europe’s heritage places are increasingly being called upon to assess risk and plan adaptations. With funding from the National Geographic Society, the Preserving Legacies project is working to help heritage advocates in every community, big and small, to meet this growing responsibility – and in so doing, to transform the conservation field from the status quo to one that is meeting the needs of the climate emergency.
Participants will learn from Preserving Legacies colleagues about emerging best practices in climate risk assessment and adaptation planning for heritage places, including approaches that are locally-led, science-based and values-driven. These approaches to adapting places will be presented at theoretical level and also illustrated through a case study drawn from the Côteaux, Maisons et Caves de Champagne World Heritage Site in France. In addition, climate adaptation policy frameworks relevant to heritage will be discussed at national, European and international level. This will include an update from the team of the European Heritage Hub pilot project, who will have just returned from the 2024 UN Climate Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Programme
Welcome and Discussion of Masterclass Aims
Andrew Potts, Heritage and Climate Action Advisor at Europa Nostra; Director of Community at Preserving Legacies – Heritage Adapts to Climate Alliance (USA)
Emerging Approaches to Risk Assessment and Climate Adaptation Planning for Heritage Places
– “Overview of the Preserving Legacies Framework for Locally-Led, Science-Based, Values-Driven Risk Assessment for Heritage”
Dr Salma Sabour, Director of Science, Preserving Legacies (Belgium / Morocco)
– “Europe’s Heritage on the Frontlines of Climate Change: Adaptation Work in France’s Côteaux, Maisons et Caves de Champagne World Heritage Site”
Amandine Crépin, Directrice de la Mission Côteaux, Maisons et Caves de Champagne (France)
Building Climate Policy and Finance Support for Adapting Cultural Heritage
– “The benefits of securing heritage sectoral plans in national adaptation frameworks: the case of Ireland”
Dr Cathy Daly, Senior Researcher at Carrig Conservation International; Consultant, Ireland’s Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation Plan for Built and Archaeological Heritage (Ireland / UK)
– Culture and Heritage in Climate Adaptation Policy at EU and International Scales – an introduction to the Heritage Adapts to Climate Alliance
Andrew Potts
Q&A session
