Preserving Legacies

This is great work. But, as @climatecentral.org acknowledges, their estimates do not yet include costs related to damage to ecosystem services or cultural heritage. The IPCC recognizes these as key areas of climate costs. Let’s work together to get these costs counted! @ucs.org
#ClimateHeritage

What scientists learned from a mysterious surge in Canadian turtle deaths Scientists have been closely monitoring a map turtle population after 10 percent died in 2022. They found a surprising culprit, and are left concerned for the future.

#Natgeo highlights the work of Dr. Grégory Bulté with support from our Climate Custodian, Cass Stabler, to help preserve one of Canada’s most climate vulnerable reptiles: the Northern Map Turtle.

📸 Michael Snyder & Justin Dalaba

🔗 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Three weeks left! Applications for the 2026 Cohort Programme close on January 5.

Join a global family of Climate Custodians shaping community-led climate solutions!

🌍 3-year journey
📚 Learn
🤝 Assess
🛠️ Act

✨ Apply now → www.heritageadapts.org/post/2026-co...

Applications Are Now Open for the 2026 Climate Heritage Cohort Program! The 2026 cohort program application is now open! Apply by January 5 to be considered for this transformative three-year journey to preserve your community's heritage places and practices against the i...

The countdown begins. Only 4 weeks left to apply to the 2026 Climate Heritage Cohort Program! We’re looking for 10 heritage places ready to protect their community and build a climate-resilient future!

Apply today: www.heritageadapts.org/post/2026-co...

Join us at the Resilience Hub on Nov 10 at 12:30 (Brazil time) for the Global Center on Adaptation’s #LocalAdaptationChampionsAwards! 🏆 We’re honored to be nominated in the Citizen #Science category, celebrating #locallyled #climateaction. Tune in live at 🔗 llahub.gca.org. Wish us luck!

As the Planet Warms, We Must Ensure Culture is Included in COP30’s Adaptation Decisions COP30 is being called the “COP of adaptation.” Here are four ways to make sure that promise extends to culture and heritage.

🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/a...

There has always been a culture -sized hole in UN climate negotiations: Will COP30 Help Fill It? To get climate action back on track, COP30 must urgently address the cultural enablers and barriers to transformative change

Our Director of Community, @andrewspotts.bsky.social, along with Marcele Oliveira and Alison Tickell, co-authored a series of articles exploring how culture, heritage, and creativity can bridge the gap between climate policy and people’s lived realities.

🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...

Shenkeng District Completes Climate Risk & Adaptation Workshop Shenkeng District recently completed their locally led climate risk assessment and adaptation planning workshop—a three-day convening of diverse stakeholders that marked the culmination of months of c...

Tea, tofu, and typhoons 🍵🌪️ in Shenkeng, Taiwan, heritage meets climate action.

See how custodians are blending tradition and innovation to brew resilience: www.heritageadapts.org/post/shenken...

Applications Are Now Open for the 2026 Climate Heritage Cohort Program! The 2026 cohort program application is now open! Apply by January 5 to be considered for this transformative three-year journey to preserve your community's heritage places and practices against the i...

Applications are open for the 2026 Climate Heritage Cohort Program!

A 3-year journey for community leaders to protect heritage and build resilience in the face of climate change.

Learn. Assess. Act!

Apply by January 5, 2026 → www.heritageadapts.org/post/2026-co...

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

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."

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

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. 🌍

🌍 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

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!

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 🌏

🧵🧪 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".

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

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

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!

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...

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...

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

YouTube video by UN Climate Change - Events Unlocking the Power of the Culture, Heritage & Knowledge Provisions of the Global Goal on Adaptation

#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...

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...

📖 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

YouTube video by The Met Sikien of Koutammakou, Republic of Benin and Togo | Africa’s Cultural Landmarks

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...

🌍 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

#heritage #resilience #community