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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · 2d

#Culture is moving to the center of the #COP30 agenda!

Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · 2d

Princess Dana opened the High-Level Dialogue of the Group of Friends for Culture-Based Climate Action in Barcelona #mondicult. "Thank you for your continued efforts in advancing our shared vision to place culture and heritage at the very heart of climate action."

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · 4d

Together with @adammarkham.bsky.social, I shared the Heritage Adapts! Plan and connected with inspiring partners to keep the momentum growing.

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · 4d

Last week at #ClimateWeekNYC, @andrewspotts.bsky.social joined Activation Group 19 with the @cop30brazil.bsky.social Presidency & Climate Champions to advance the #COP30 Action Agenda on culture, heritage, and climate action. 🌍

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · 7d

🌍 At the #UCLG Culture Summit in #Barcelona, Juli Polanco (CA State Historic Preservation Officer) highlighted how partnerships + culture drive climate resilience, featuring Preserving Legacies & the CA–Scripps Climate Assessment.

🔗 agenda21culture.net/summit/6th-uclg-culture-summit-2025

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 8d

Fantastic description by @salmasabour.bsky.social of the locally-led risk & adaptation workshop in Mongolia supported by @preservinglegacies.bsky.social. Sacred landscapes, nomadic lifeways, traditional knowledge all played into identifying values, priorities & action pathways.
#climateheritage 🌏

Kherlen River Basin Completes Locally Led Climate Risk & Adaptation Workshop

Kherlen River Basin custodians Saku Saruu and Suvdaa Suvd are kicking off locally led climate risk and adaptation workshop season here at Preserving Legacies!

www.heritageadapts.org

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Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 8d

🧵🧪 In session on policy and societal requirements at the Royal Society discussion meeting today, Prof Hans-Otto Pörtner, former Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II, stated that he thinks keeping global temperature rise "below 1.5 [°C above pre-industrial] is probably now out of reach".

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 14d

The #HeritageAdapts! 3000 x 2030 campaign launching in 2026 aims to support thousands of heritage sites and cultural practices to adapt to climate change in the spirit of the Global Goal on Adaptation cultural heritage target. Join us!
🔗Learn more: www.heritageadapts.org/community

#ClimateHeritage

Community of Action

www.heritageadapts.org

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 14d

Meeting today during #ClimateWeekNYC of Activation Group 19 i.e. folks working with the @cop30brazil.bsky.social Presidency & Climate High-Level Champions to help deliver the COP30 Action Agenda objective on Culture, cultural heritage protection & climate action. 50 days to Belém! #ClimateHeritage

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 14d

At today’s COP30 Activation Group meeting on culture & heritage, presenting the Heritage Adapts! 3000 x 2030 plan to accelerate adaptation for heritage sites & cultures practices, w/ @icomos.bsky.social @europanostra.bsky.social @preservinglegacies.bsky.social @climateheritage.bsky.social & more!

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · 20d

Honored to be a finalist for the 2025 Local Adaptation Champions Awards recognizing the power of heritage & community in building a climate-resilient future. 💙 #ClimateAction #Heritage

For more information: llahub.gca.org/articles/7c5...

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Aug 28

That’s why we created the Heritage Adapts to Climate Alliance (HACA). Join us: forms.gle/7n1op8SaB7E3...

Join the Heritage Adapts to Climate Alliance (HACA)

Across the globe, the omission of culture and heritage from climate adaptation policy and finance is a barrier to scaling up work to protect these community assets from climate-related risks -- but th...

forms.gle

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Aug 28

#Culture + #climateaction are stronger together.

At #COP29, our Director of Community @andrewspotts.bsky.social highlighted how heritage helps communities adapt, share knowledge, and build resilience.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7P3...

Unlocking the Power of the Culture, Heritage & Knowledge Provisions of the Global Goal on Adaptation

YouTube video by UN Climate Change - Events

www.youtube.com

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Aug 21

📖 Weekly read: 80% of #UNESCO #heritagesites are under #climatestress. A low-emission future could spare 40%, but urgent action is needed.

Through local, #communityled strategies, Preserving Legacies is helping safeguard the stories that connect us all. ✨

Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

World Cultural Heritage sites are under climate stress and no emissions mitigation pathways can uniformly protect them - Communications Earth & Environment

Approximately eighty percent of World Cultural Heritage sites already experience heat and moisture disturbances, and nearly nineteen percent of sites have stone or wood materials affected by the chang...

www.nature.com

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Aug 13

This week’s read 📚: Advances in complex #climatechange risk #assessment for #adaptation (Nature).

From cities to coastal zones to finance, new tools like #participatorymodeling & adaptation pathways are helping turn uncertainty into #climateaction. 🌍

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Advances in complex climate change risk assessment for adaptation - npj Climate Action

Recent advances in climate change risk assessment and management and their application across cities, coastal zones, and finance highlight promising opportunities for near-term action to better govern...

www.nature.com

Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Aug 12

#COP30 presidency just announced this year’s thematic days. Nov 12–13: Health, Jobs, Education, #Culture, #Justice & #HumanRights, Info Integrity, Workers, + the first Global Ethical Stocktake. It’s the first time culture has been a #COP daily theme.

cop30.br/en/news-abou...

COP30 announces ambitious Thematic Days, invites the world to Belém

Daily debates are aligned with the Action Agenda and aim to engage civil society in discussions about real solutions for the climate

cop30.br

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Aug 11

This July, our climate custodian, Ibrahim, was featured on the @metmuseum.org. The short film “Sikien of Koutammakou,” by Sosena Solomon, celebrates the Batammariba people and their Takienta earthen homes, icons of culture and climate resilience. 🌍🏛️

🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPrS...

Sikien of Koutammakou, Republic of Benin and Togo | Africa’s Cultural Landmarks

YouTube video by The Met

www.youtube.com

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Aug 5

🌍 The #InternationalCourtofJustice just issued its Advisory Opinion on #climatechange obligations.

It doesn't mention #heritage outright, but it makes clear: protecting the climate and human rights = protecting the places, stories, and cultures we love.

www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

www.icj-cij.org

Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Aug 5

Tuvalu is building a digital nation, a cloud-based replica of its land, #governance, and #culture, because its physical islands may vanish within decades. Their strategy is one of hope, sovereignty, and #resilience in the face of #climatecollapse.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...

Facing extinction, Tuvalu considers the digital clone of a country

As the climate emergency threatens its existence, the tiny Pacific nation is not only trying to reclaim physical land but create a ‘twin’ to survive in future

www.theguardian.com

Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Jul 30

Meet Marlon M. Martin, lawyer turned #heritage protector in #Ifugao. As Executive Director of SITMo and a Preserving Legacies Climate Custodian, he blends #ancestralwisdom with science to safeguard the iconic rice terraces.

📍 Full spotlight here: www.heritageadapts.org/post/custodi...

Custodian Spotlight: Meet Marlon M. Martin

From big city lawyer to local leader, Marlon was one of the first custodians to participate in the Preserving Legacies cohort program. Learn more about his journey to preserve his culture and the insi...

www.heritageadapts.org

Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Jul 24

Batammariba women are builders of homes and memory.
Mothers of culture.
Keepers of heritage.
Resilience in motion.

#heritage #resilience #community

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Jul 22

📖 This article proposes a relational research model grounded in #Indigenousvalues, integrity, respect, humility, reciprocity, designed to mend colonial legacies in
#research.

ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss2/a...

Ecology & Society: A values-centered relational science model: supporting Indigenous rights and reconciliation in research

Addressing complex social-ecological issues requires all relevant sources of knowledge and data, especially those held by communities who remain close to the land. Centuries of oppression, extractive ...

ecologyandsociety.org

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Jul 17

Climate data only matters if communities can use it.

Thanks to Dr. Salma Sabour’s leadership, we’re making climate science accessible & rooted in cultural context—so heritage custodians can lead adaptation.

Top-down science is out. Shared stewardship is in.
🔗 www.heritageadapts.org/post/democra...

Democratizing Scientific Climate Data and Services

Climate resilience for heritage places can only be achieved when heritage custodians and communities leading adaptation efforts have not only meaningful access to relevant scientific climate data prod...

www.heritageadapts.org

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · Jul 12

A healthy climate is a human right.
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#climateheritage #climatelitigation

The Court Has Spoken: A Healthy Climate is a Human Right

In the face of climate breakdown, advocates, communities, and courts have powerful new tools for accountability and human rights protections.

blog.ucs.org

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Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social · Jul 15

📖 #Interestingread: The Moai of Rapa Nui are facing the sea. And so are their people.

This BBC story is a moving look at how the Rapanui are restoring their sacred stone guardians, facing #climatechange with #heritage, care, and determination.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Is this the end for Easter Island's moai statues?

Easter Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage.

www.bbc.com