Dear ICOMOS Members,

Australia ICOMOS looks forward to welcoming delegates from all around the world to GA2023 in Sydney from 31 August – 9 September 2023.

ICOMOS announced today a new global initiative to safeguard sites of cultural significance from the impacts of climate change.

Preserving Legacies : A Future for our Past will equip communities worldwide with the tools to accurately assess worsening and future climate impacts on cultural heritage sites in order to rescue them before it is too late.

On 6 February 2023, two major earthquakes and their aftershocks struck Syria and Turkey.
ICOMOS expresses its condolences and sadness at the rapidly rising death toll and numbers of missing and injured, as well as the devastation inflicted on populations, in part already heavily tested by war in Syria, in difficult winter conditions. ICOMOS offers its assistance.

ICOMOS is pleased to announce that a new international scientific committee has been created on January 6, 2023: ISC on Aerospace Heritage (ISCoAH). With this announcement, ICOMOS’ heritage endeavours now extend from aviation and space related facilities on the Earth to the Moon and across the Solar System!

Teresa Patricio, ICOMOS President, attended the 2nd Conference of Ministers of Culture 2023 in Davos as one of the founding members of the Davos Baukultur Alliance which launched January 16, 2023.
5 years after having contributed to the "Davos Declaration - towards a high-quality Baukultur in Europe", which emphasises the central role of culture in the quality of our living environment, ICOMOS is back in Davos to empower culture and heritage as strategic resources for a diverse and democratic world.