Start Adapting your Heritage Site or Cultural Practice to Climate Change
Join the community uniting behind a collective pledge to take climate adaptation action for their heritage sites and cultural practices by 2030 — and find the training, tools, and global network to support your action!
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Free online community platform for all working to safeguard heritage from climate change.
Explore training and tools to help you adapt
Guide your community through locally led adaptation with this action-oriented program of video lessons, worksheets, toolkits, office hours, and more. From strengthening climate literacy, to engaging stakeholders and assessing risk, to taking action, you'll ground your work in an inclusive, plural knowledge approach to ensure action is locally relevant and equitable.
Grow your professional network
Connect with a global community to inspire and learn from one another, because the best advice comes from those who live it.
Access localised climate data
Download regional data and learn how to explore it, so that you can use it on your own terms and weave it with the knowledge your communities already hold.
Unite around a shared global mission
Contribute to this first-ever, UN-recognized campaign uniting the heritage sector to support at least 3,000 heritage sites and cultural practices to take climate adaptation action by 2030 — and take the pledge to show your commitment for your heritage, ensuring your local action is represented on the global stage.
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Sites & Practices Taking Action
No matter the type or scale of heritage you represent, or the expertise that you have, Heritage Adapts! is for you. When you join, you'll be immediately connected to a global community all working towards the shared mission to adapt 3,000 sites and practices to climate change by 2030. We adapt better together!
Making adaptation accessible no matter your starting point
Register & Take the Pledge
Create an account and if you represent a heritage site or cultural practice, take the pledge so that your work counts towards our global mission of 3,000 sites and practices taking adaptation action by 2030, AND access our first-of-its-kind, action-oriented training program to help you guide your community through locally led adaptation.
Take the diagnostic + onboard to the community
Answer a few questions and we'll recommend a starting point for you in our action-oriented training program for locally led adaptation, which you can change at any time. Then continue to sign-up for the community so that you can engage directly with others!
Start planning & adapting with our action-oriented training
Guide your community through locally led adaptation with our action-oriented training program, packed with multimedia lessons, case studies, toolkits, and worksheets, as well as access to expert office hours, our Resource Library, and Regional Climate Data Hub. You will deepen your understanding of climate change and engage stakeholders and community members to:
- Identify heritage values at risk
- Assess climate impacts
- Explore adaptation options
- Publish a risk and adaptation assessment
- Develop adaptation actions
- Implement those actions
- Monitor, evaluate, and learn from them
- Share with others!
Stage A: Deepen your Climate & Heritage Understanding
Learn & Organize: Build knowledge and momentum by enhancing your understanding of climate science, learning how it intersects with heritage, and organizing your community for action.
Stage B: Complete a Community-Led Risk Assessment & Adaptation Plan
Assess & Plan: Engage your community and use localised climate models from our Climate Data Hub to weave science with the knowledge your community already holds into a co-created risk assessment and adaptation plan.
Stage C: Take an Adaptation Action, Monitor & Evaluate
Implement & Learn: Put your plan into practice—whether new site interventions, updated management policies, or community-led campaigns. Then monitor progress, adapt as needed, and share your story!
Engage in the community
What you already know is just as important as what you find here. Connect with others united by the same mission in Discussion Boards and Virtual Events to inspire and learn from one another, and explore our variety of resources including our Resource Library and Regional Climate Data Hub.
Discussion Boards
Join the conversation and find discussion boards relevant to your interests.
Free Resources
Browse our extensive library of reading material, reports, & more.
Member Directory
Find and connect with others on the same mission as you.
Why it Matters
Climate change is the fastest growing threat to heritage sites and cultural practices worldwide, yet many are unable to take needed action—there’s already so much to do, it’s hard to know where to start, and it often feels like you’re the only one thinking about it. You’re not alone! There are thousands of people like you around the world, so we started our 3000 x 2030 pledge to unite us, and community platform with action-oriented training to support us. We adapt better when we work together!
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Coming Soon: Adaptation for Everyone
We are working on website translations into multiple languages, as well as the guided Action Journey delivered via WhatsApp, coming soon. Join now to be the first to know when these features are available.