Climate Change and Heritage Adaptation

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

Discover how the National Trust is part of the global fight against climate change, the challenges it faces with shifting weather patterns and what they're doing to care for historic houses and landscapes in their care.

WRI works with governments, businesses and civil society to stabilize the climate so that people and nature can thrive.

A platform to inform, connect and inspire local communities and practitioners around the world with the latest knowledge and solutions for adapting to climate change.

A library of information relevant to the Global Goal on Adaptation, the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience and the work of Heritage Adapts to Climate Alliance (HACA).

Global data on historical and future climate, vulnerabilities, and impacts.

Easy-to-read graphical summary of climatic data for any location on Earth.

A novel tool for flexible spatial and temporal analyses of much of the observed and projected climate change information underpinning the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, including regional synthesis for Climatic Impact-Drivers (CIDs).

The Climate Heritage Network seeks to scale up culture-based climate action and to make climate policy people-centred through coordination and cooperation among its members.

Preserving legacies: climate risk and resilience in Petra = صون الموروث المخاطر المناخیة والمَنَعة في البترا.

The Preserving Legacies guiding principles and framework for assessing climate change risk to heritage places. By ICOMOS & Preserving Legacies.

Climate change is a major driver and pressure acting on marine biodiversity and is an increasingly critical management consideration for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs).

'High-level guidance on enhancing the protection and conservation of heritage of Outstanding Universal Value through comprehensive adoption of climate action measures.'

Global research and action agenda on culture, heritage and climate change: scientific outcome of the International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change.

White Paper II: Impacts, vulnerability, and understanding risks of climate change for culture and heritage: Contribution of Impacts Group II to the International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change.

White Paper I: Intangible cultural heritage, diverse knowledge systems and climate change. Contribution of Knowledge Systems Group I to the International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change.

White Paper III: The role of cultural and natural heritage for climate action: Contribution of Impacts Group III to the International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change.

'UNESCO is committed to ensuring that culture is fully integrated into climate action and strategies, both as a shared global asset that needs to be safeguarded from the effects of climate change and as a transversal tool for climate change mitigation and adaptation. The stories and highlights found in this issue of the World Heritage Review point to the way forward.'

ICOMOS releases “Future of Our Pasts” report to increase engagement of cultural heritage in climate action.

An overview of the increasing vulnerability of World Heritage sites to climate change impacts and the potential implications for and of global tourism.

Building climate change resilience through water management and ecosystems (International Union for Conservation of Nature).

A guiding toolkit for increasing climate change resilience (English) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

A guiding toolkit for increasing climate change resilience (Arabic) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.