#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...

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!

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...

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 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...

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."

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

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...

#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...

📖 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

📖 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...

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...

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

📖 #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...

news from Skellig Michael, a PL site! The High Court has lifted the suspension on ferry permits. This island sanctuary is vital for both its #culturalheritage and #ecosystem. Its reopening supports local livelihoods and keeps this iconic site accessible. www.thejournal.ie/skellig-mich...

🎶Interesting read: In Odisha, India, a 15th-century singing tradition is helping fight wildfires. Women-led sankirtan mandalis use music to educate against forest burning, cutting fires by up to 30% Culture isn’t just heritage, it’s climate action.

🇧🇷🇨🇴 Climate Custodian Carlos del Cairo met with fellow custodians Luana Campos & Denir Marcus in Corumbá, Brazil, for the 2nd Meeting on #Archaeology & #AncientHistory in the #Pantanal. When heritage leaders come together, we build more than knowledge; we build futures. 🌿

📖 Good read: #Culturalheritage is now part of the Global Goal on Adaptation and key to addressing loss & damage under the #ParisAgreement. The article highlights how Indigenous knowledge and cultural survival are shaping global #climateaction. 🔗 academic.oup.com/oxford-law-p...

📖 #UNESCO just launched a new report (with @GEO) on #climateimpacts in #WorldHeritage cities across the Mediterranean. It highlights not only the rising risks but also the power of cultural and traditional knowledge in building #resilience. Link: unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...

Climate Custodians from around the world are leading values-based, locally grounded climate action. From fishing stories in Tunisia to student collages in Brazil, their work shows why community is at the center of real climate resilience. 📰 Read more: www.heritageadapts.org/post/preserv...

Last week, we teamed up with #Worldmonumentsfund for their #CultivatingResilience program, sharing tools, stories, and strategies to power climate action at cultural sites. Excited to keep growing these connections and skills together! 📸: Dario Rugerio

🎉 Congrats to our amazing project manager, Tina Paterno, for serving as an expert panelist at the International Conference & Workshop on Revitalising Industrial Heritage for #SustainableDevelopment! Hosted by #SouthwestJiaotongUniversity & HKU’s MSc Conservation Program.

I'm thrilled to have just met with some of the amazing team at @preservinglegacies.bsky.social. And I'm excited to be helping out for the next few months with this extraordinary initiative's work on climate literacy, community action & adaptation. #climateheritage 🌎 #WorldHeritage

The Global Goal on Adaptation indicator process is an unprecedented opportunity to open doors to decision making & finance to those working to adapt culture & heritage to climate change. Read the #HACA #SB62 position paper via @preservinglegacies.bsky.social: 🔗 www.heritageadapts.org/post/haca-sb...

Our Director of Storytelling, Michel Snyder, traveled with our climate custodians to capture resilience in action. These stories prove the power of visual storytelling in climate adaptation and heritage. @nationalgeographic.bsky.social

Big news from #COP30! Culture, cultural heritage & climate action are officially on the agenda as Objective 19 under “Fostering Human & Social Development.” 🌍 Read the 4th Presidential Letter: cop30.br/en/brazilian...

Throughout #SB62, cultural heritage has remained front and center in adaptation discussions. We’re proud to have contributed our voice through HACA’s Position Paper, a global collaboration of heritage experts, practitioners, and custodians. 🔗 www.heritageadapts.org/post/haca-sb... #Bonn #UNFCCC

Day 2 at #SB62 The #IPCC announced its plan to center justice and equity in the forthcoming AR7 Working Group II adaptation assessment — a major boost for inclusive climate policy. #bonnbabybonn #UNFCCC #Bonngermany #culturebasedclimateaction

Day 1 at #SB62 in #Bonn was unforgettable! Our Director of Community, @andrewspotts.bsky.social, joined the #GFCBCA side event panel, sharing the stage with Ana Toni (COP30 CEO) and HE Abdulla Ahmed Balalaa (UAE Sustainability Minister. #Culturebased #climateaction became the center stage! #UNFCCC

🚨 Exciting update! Our Executive Director, Dr. Victoria Herrmann, a Geographer & #NationalGeographicExplorer, is in the 2025 #NationalGeographicExplorersFest #Xfest2025 brings together explorers, scientists, and storytellers working to inspire real-world solutions for our planet.

Do you know what the #UNFCCC BONN #SB62 sessions are and why they are so important for cultural heritage policy? Click on the video to learn more and read our #PositionPaper with recommendations on the UNFCCC’s 62 adaptation indicators. youtube.com/shorts/bYU0h...

🎉 Big news! HACA’s Position Paper by Preserving Legacies + global heritage experts is now live, with clear recommendations on the #UNFCCC 62 #adaptationindicators. Debuting at #SB62 in Bonn (Jun 16–26). Read and endorse! www.heritageadapts.org/post/haca-sb...

Global exchange sparks local action. Climate custodians Taher Falahat & Haifa Abdulhalim ran workshops in Petra, joining a worldwide heritage network so communities can protect what matters most. #climateaction #heritage #HeritageForClimate youtu.be/Yt24ck_wMd8

We’re thrilled to share that @andrewspotts.bsky.social, our Director of Community, has been awarded the #2025WatchAward by #WorldMonumentsFund 🌍 This award honors years of work bringing #heritage into the heart of #climateaction and making sure #policy centers people, place, and #resilience.

Last week in Bagerhat. From kids’ art to climate action, the community came together to map what matters most and what’s most at risk from climate change. 📣 Local media helped spread the word: dailynewnation.com/climate-risk... #locallyled #climateaction #heritage