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The Climate Heritage Network (CHN) was mobilized in 2018 at the Global Climate Action Summit. It was launched in 2019 as a voluntary support network of government agencies, universities, NGO s, businesses and other organizations concerned about climate change, committed to take action and to achieve the ambitions of the Paris Agreement.

The CHN focuses on re-orienting climate policy, planning, and action at various scales and levels, and to incorporate within them all forms of culture - from arts to heritage.

Key Issues
The CHN aims to address certain key issues (with the help of Issue Leads or CHN member organizations) to help in prioritizing the role of culture in climate planning and action. The key issues include:


 * Adaptation and Resilience
 * Buildings and Infrastructure
 * Carbon Markets
 * Climate Impacts
 * Education, Training & Public Awareness
 * Just Transition
 * Food & Agriculture
 * Loss, Migration, Displacement & Human Mobility
 * Waste & Consumption
 * Women & Gender
 * Tourism
 * Youth

Work
The CHN with its steering committee (comprised of trailblazing culture colleagues) makes strategies and Action Plans to enable transformative climate action using culture and heritage-based approaches. Also, CHN champions the arts, culture and heritage voices at the COP and works hard to create international culture-climate collaborations.

Action Plan 2022-24
The Action Plan aims to connect cultural voices across sectors and prioritizes support for rights-based, place-based, demand-side, and people-centered strategies. Two goals for the CHN Action Plan 2022-24 are:

Increase the quantity and quality of Culture Based Climate Action

 * 1) Strategy: Developing ‘guiding values’ for culture-based climate action
 * 2) Strategy: Developing and promoting tools
 * 3) Strategy: Design and launch Culture Initiative of the Race to Resilience

Transform Climate Policy via Culture

 * 1) Strategy: Stimulating Engagement by Cultural Voices with Key Climate Policy Issues
 * 2) Strategy: Stimulate Engagement by Cultural Voices at Key Climate Policy Fora

Culture @ COP27
The CHN has created a Manifesto that includes inspiring messages to amplify climate action and ambition among the arts, culture and heritage community. The CHN members are participating at different events at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, where the COP events are held in 2022. CHN has also created Issue cards to to support richer engagement and communication for climate-culture.

Membership
People associated with and working in all kinds of culture and arts and creative industries, with a drive to address climate action, are invited to become members of the CHN. The CHN members are expected to abide by the MOU which lists the Areas of Action, Coordination and Cooperation. The Steering committee of CHN, which is made up of Co-Chairs elected from CHN members, has finalized the terms of reference of the network.

Some members of the CHN are as below:

American Institute of Architects (AIA)

Europa Nostra

International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

International Council of Museums (ICOM)

World Monuments Fund (WMF)

Collaborations

 * Climate Change and Cultural Heritage Webinar Series with Historic England
 * ICOMOS and CHN Resources
 * Resilience Hub and CHN