Theme:
7. Archaeology of Sustainability through World Crises, Climate Change and War
Session format:
Round table (without formal abstracts, only list of confirmed discussants / session co-organisers to be provided)
Title:
EAA Community for Climate Change and Heritage (CCH) Roundtable
Content:
In September 2023, Climate Heritage Network launched a Global Call to Put Cultural Heritage, Arts and Creative Sectors at the Heart of Climate Action. A milestone was reached when the first ever high-level ministerial dialogue for culture-based climate action took place at COP28 in Dubai in December 2023. This is an important step towards culture being included in the core work of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. How, though, can we ensure that cultural heritage, and archaeology, make a substantial and visible contribution to culture-based climate action? As we face the challenges of Net Zero and the Race to Resilience, we need tangible progress in ensuring that interdisciplinary research on responses of previous societies to environmental change informs our response to climate change. We have as background the statements on climate change and heritage released by the EAA 2021 (https://www.e-a-a.org/2021Statement), SACC 2021 (https://www.jma.uni-kiel.de/en/research-projects/sacc/sacc-statement-2021.pdf ) and the SAA 2022 Statement on Climate Change and Cultural, which all point to different important aspects on how archaeology and archaeologists can contribute.
This eighth roundtable organized by the EAA Community for Climate Change and Heritage (CCH) builds on the success of the previous ones and hopes to focus further on the translation of archaeological research into practical adaptation and resilience solutions.
We are inviting representatives of key archaeology associations as well as specialists in climate change and heritage research as a sounding board for the CCH activities. The roundtable session will provide an update on the work done in and by the community since the previous meeting and discuss next steps for the Community to grow and extend its network and activities to help adapt to a global climate crisis, find good solutions for adaptation and thus increase heritage and societal resilience.
Keywords:
Climate Change, Sustainability, Net Zero, Adaptation, Resilience, Mitigation
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
CCH Climate Change and Heritage Community
Main organiser:
Mairi Davies (United Kingdom) 1
Co-organisers:
Vibeke Martens (Norway) 2
Peter Biehl (United States) 3
Affiliations:
1. HES Historic Environment Scotland
2. NIKU Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research
3. University of California, Santa Cruz
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