[This event is organised by Europa Nostra, Project Lead of the European Heritage Hub. The following text is the original description provided by the organisers.]
Europa Nostra is pleased to invite you 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 organised in the frame of Europa Nostra’s network project European Cultural Heritage Agora “Empowering Europe’s Civil Society for Heritage” (2022-2024), which is supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. This masterclass 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.
