National Climate Strategies for Cultural Management
PERMANENT SECRETARIAT
Below, you will find the existing national climate strategies which are specifically dedicated to the sustainable management of cultural heritage and which have been shared by EHHF members with the Permanent Secretariat.
NORWAY
The Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage presented its ‘Climate strategy for cultural environment management’, which spans from 2021-2030.
The strategy is divided in two parts, namely cultural heritage and the contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions on the one hand, and cultural heritage and the management of adverse climate change consequences on the other hand. Each section is divided in goals (six in total):
- Goal 1: Cultural environments are managed through coordinated land use planning, with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and safeguarding cultural-historical values and interests;
- Goal 2: Buildings are preserved and used so that greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, and cultural environments safeguarded;
- Goal 3: Improve the energy performance in existing buildings so that greenhouse gas emissions are reduced and cultural-historical values safeguarded;
- Goal 4: Strengthen expertise to safeguard cultural environments in a changing climate;
- Goal 5 Prevent and reduce climate-related loss of and damage to cultural environments.
The document concludes with a follow-up and recommendations.
SPAIN
In 2023, under the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU, the Directorate General for Cultural Heritage and Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture launched the Green Paper on the Sustainable Management of Cultural Heritage. This hybrid tool (online and book) aims to provide strategic guidelines for the sustainable management of cultural heritage.
The Green Paper first reviews legal frameworks in place for the protection of cultural heritage in Spain and at the international level. It then proposes tools for heritage protection at the level of organisation, funding, conservation and documents, research, development and innovation, and communication, dissemination and heritage education. The Green Paper concludes with a review of the sustainability challenges applied to cultural heritage, including challenges linked to environmental, economic and social sustainability.
More details are available through the following link: https://www.cultura.gob.es/libro-verde-patrimonio/en/portada.html
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
This report summarises the work of the EU Open Method of Coordination (OMC) group of Member States’ experts on ‘Strengthening cultural heritage resilience for climate change’. It is based on the discussions and information, provided and approved by the members of the OMC expert group in the meetings during 2021 – 2022 in addition to presentations given by the invited external experts.
Find more information on the official publication page of the EU: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/4bfcf605-2741-11ed-8fa0-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
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