Heritage Adapts! 3000 x 2030
Adapt your Heritage Site or Cultural Practice Now
You don’t have to adapt alone. Join the community of local stewards uniting behind a shared pledge to take climate adaptation action for their heritage sites and cultural practices by 2030!
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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 this pledge to unite us, and community to support us. We adapt better when we work together!
3000 by 2030
In the face of climate change, we need heritage now more than ever. Heritage is not just a victim of its impacts—it is part of the solution, both as a source of community resilience and a well of generational wisdom relevant today.
This is now being recognized at the highest levels of global climate action, with heritage's inclusion in the UN's Global Goal on Adaptation and Heritage Adapts! being recognized as a "Plan to Accelerate Solutions." When you join Heritage Adapts! your action not only counts for your community, it counts globally.
Sites & Practices Taking Action
How it Works
Every heritage steward is invited to make the pledge to take locally led climate adaptation action for their heritage site or cultural practice by 2030—and to join the community to support one another through the process to actually do it! Whether natural and cultural places, objects and collections, intangible cultural heritage and practices, and beyond, Heritage Adapts! is for you. Even if you don't represent a site or practice, you are valued here too.
We adapt better together!
The Action Journey
After taking the pledge, answer a few questions to join your recommended stage on this guided roadmap for locally led adpatation. Developed with stewards in the field, it is grounded in an approach that centers inclusion and weaves together scientific, Indigenous, and local knowledge.
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!
The Commons
What you already know is just as important as what you find here. Whether you've taken the pledge or are an advocate, government official, practitioner, or researcher, your experience is valued and contributes to our collective efforts to adapt heritage. In this communcal space you can engage with each other and open access resources.
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