8.2aa What is the impact of heritage sectors on climate change and net zero objectives, and ‘what works’ to mitigate those impacts?
Background
Our nation’s heritage is irreplaceable and a vital tool for economic growth, creating diverse jobs, specialist skills, and fostering real pride in place. We want to protect and enhance the best of our heritage to meet modern needs, keeping it alive through re-use and regeneration, providing communities with the infrastructure they need, and empowering them to take on the heritage assets they cherish. DCMS needs to better understand how these goals can be achieved most effectively, whilst considering local, financial and environmental impacts of the sector and interventions.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Joint UK-Ireland Research Agenda for Climate Change and Heritage
We assert that a new area of research is needed to ensure the impacts of climate change and our responses to it are managed to preserve the significance of our irreplaceable heritage. This project seeks to establish and ...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England
Why might this be relevant?
This project establishes a UK-Ireland Joint Research Agenda for Climate Change and Heritage, addressing the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage and proposing strategies for mitigation and adaptation.
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Values-based Climate Change Risk Assessment: Piloting the Climate Vulnerability Index for Cultural Heritage in Africa [Highlight Notice]
Climate change poses an existential threat to all humanity. Understanding this change and adapting to it has become the greatest challenge of our time. From rising sea-levels, more extreme weather events and aridificatio...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Queen's University Belfast
Why might this be relevant?
This project focuses on piloting the Climate Vulnerability Index for Cultural Heritage in Africa, providing a methodology to assess vulnerability and adapt to climate change impacts on heritage sites.
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Transformation and resilience of our landscapes, archaeology and built heritage: defining responses to societal and environmental pressures
Cultural Heritage will, in the near future, be subject to substantial transformation in response to changing climate. Mitigation and adaptation measures will affect economic governance, and introduce sustainability press...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of the West of Scotland
Why might this be relevant?
While this project addresses the transformation and resilience of cultural heritage in response to climate change, it does not specifically focus on the impact of heritage sectors on climate change and net zero objectives.