Update: #HeritageAdapts has soft launched! The platform pools a dozen organizations’ resources to support locally-led risk assessment & adaptation action for 1000s of heritage sites & cultural practices. Beta testers from 40 counties are now prepping for a public launch on 4 June. Wish us luck! 🌏🌍🌎

Just to add: our Heritage Adapts! 3000 x 2030 “Plan to Accelerate Solution” under Action Plan Activation Group 19 will be the world’s largest campaign to realize the potential of the Global Goal on Adaptation’s Target 9g. #HeritageAdapts #ClimateHeritage

Preserving Legacies We’re on a mission to empower every community to safeguard their cultural and natural heritage against climate change impacts.

@preservinglegacies.bsky.social — a global movement to support local changemakers to equitably adapt their heritage places (and soon launching the new Heritage Adapts! 3000 x 2030 campaign.
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🌎 While #COP30 yielded disappointments, here’s news on one of its accomplishments— operationalization of culture and heritage in adaptation policy. Watch for more on efforts to capitalize on this outcomes via the #HeritageAdapts! Campaign in 2026!
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Community of Action

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

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Really excited to see this innovative work on locally-led adaptation for heritage places being done in New Zealand and great that it’s getting boosted through this new collaboration with @preservinglegacies.bsky.social!
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We the undersigned gathered in Athens:

• Applaud inclusion of a thematic target on …cultural heritage … in the Global Goal on Adaptation framework … & urge national governments to adopt at @cop30amazonia.bsky.social effective & tailored indicators for measuring progress.”
#GGA #HACA #HeritageAdapts

🏙️ Victorian Gothic & Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai (India)
➡️ A vibrant “living heritage” urban landscape in continuous use for over two centuries, climate change impacts such as flooding, extreme heat, and sea storms interplay with significant pressures from rapid urban growth.
#HeritageAdapts

Ina-Maria Shikongo (@inamariashikongo.bsky.social)

🦓 Kavango / Okavango River Basin (Namibia & Botswana)
➡️ This breathtaking inland delta, critical biodiversity hotspot & home to the sacred Tsodilo Hills faces growing threats from climate change, extreme drought, and oil exploration.

@inamariashikongo.bsky.social
#ClimateHeritage
#HeritageAdapts

🏛️ Great Spa Towns of Europe (France, Belgium & UK)
➡️ Network of historic spa town across Europe that aims to develop climate adaptation strategies integrating traditional knowledge and modern climate policy.
🔗 @greatspatowns.bsky.social

#HeritageAdapts
#ClimateHeritage

🧵Exciting news: The @preservinglegacies.bsky.social project announced today the addition of 13 sites on 6️⃣ continents to the network of communities innovating locally-led, plural knowledge-driven, values-based climate adaptation solutions for their heritage places! ⬇️
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Full proposal is here: 🔗apps.ipcc.ch/eventmanager/documents/8...

#ClimateHeritage #IPCC-62 #IPCC62 #HeritageAdapts #HACA #GGA

The @preservinglegacies.bsky.social team is working on proposals for #AF2025 around adaptation of heritage sites and cultural practices that is locally-led, values-driven & based on plural knowledge systems. Drop me a line if you’re planning on being in Christchurch! #ClimateHeritage #HeritageAdapts

On Skellig Michael rock in the Atlantic, Irish colleagues are tailoring climate adaptation approaches to the task of safeguarding 1500 years of human history & dazzling biodiversity. Nice thread ⬇️ on this work & the global #HeritageAdapts @preservinglegacies.bsky.social network.

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Imagining Futures — Climate Heritage Network Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Imagining Futures project aims to unlock the power of culture and heritage to drive transformative climate action.

As part of the @climateheritage.bsky.social's @mellon.org-funded "Future of our Pasts" project, Preserving Legacies launched the #HeritageAdapts Community Leaders Circle, supporting locally-led adaptation for heritage pilots in 6 US frontline communities. www.climateheritage.org/imaginingfut...

Imagining Futures — Climate Heritage Network Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Imagining Futures project aims to unlock the power of culture and heritage to drive transformative climate action.

As part of the @climateheritage.bsky.social's @mellon.org-funded "Future of our Pasts" project, Preserving Legacies launched the #HeritageAdapts Community Leaders Circle, supporting locally-led adaptation for heritage pilots in 6 US frontline communities. www.climateheritage.org/imaginingfut...

Imagining Futures — Climate Heritage Network Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Imagining Futures project aims to unlock the power of culture and heritage to drive transformative climate action.

As part of the @climateheritage.bsky.social's @mellon.org-funded "Future of our Pasts" project, Preserving Legacies launched the #HeritageAdapts Community Leaders Circle, supporting locally-led adaptation for heritage pilots in 6 US frontline communities. www.climateheritage.org/imaginingfut...