Info for Members n°83: ICOMOS Carbon Reduction Strategy / ICOMOS Portugal International Conference – “The Venice Charter [Re]Framed: New Heritage Challenges”

ICOMOS INFO FOR MEMBERS n°83 – 16 January 2024

The ICOMOS Board approved the ICOMOS Carbon Reduction Strategy, prepared by the AdCom Sustainability and Communications Task Force (SCTF), at its meeting of 1 September 2023, in Sydney. The objective of the Strategy is to guide and encourage ICOMOS as a whole towards reducing the carbon footprint of all our activities, whilst embracing inclusion and just transition.* The Strategy includes a range of recommendations for each level of ICOMOS, from the Secretariat, through the Board, National and International Scientific Committees, Working Groups and including individual members.

The AdCom SCTF is also developing a toolkit to facilitate the operationalisation of the Strategy and we are hopeful that this will be ready for roll out in 2024.

ICOMOS is committed to the global Climate Action agenda as part of its work to protect cultural heritage around the world. We invite you to share this post widely through various media and communication channels.

You will note that some of the recommendations, such as a commitment to inclusion, can be undertaken immediately.  There are also other commitments that require further consideration and possibly statutory review and consideration, in order to normalise these actions across ICOMOS over time. We encourage all members to consider how to use the strategy to shape their own personal commitments to climate action.

 Read the Carbon Reduction Strategy

*Just Transition is a vision-led, unifying and place-based set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy. This means approaching production and consumption cycles holistically and waste-free. The transition itself must be just and equitable; redressing past harms and creating new relationships of power for the future through reparations. If the process of transition is not just, the outcome will never be. Just Transition describes both where we are going and how we get there. Read more

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Venice Charter, ICOMOS Portugal, in collaboration with ARTIS, Institute of Art History of the University of Lisbon, present an international conference titled The Venice Charter [Re]Framed: New Heritage Challenges. The event takes place in the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon from 27 to 30 May 2024.

The conference addresses the charter and its principles in the context of the particular challenges in the field of heritage in the 21^st century. The keynote speakers include, among others, Mario Santana Quintero, previous Secretary General of ICOMOS and William Megarry, the Focal Point of the Climate Action Working Group at ICOMOS. Teresa Patrício, the President of ICOMOS, will attend as a member of the Honour Committee.

For further information, you may contact the organization at congress.artis@letras.ulisboa.pt or ICOMOS Portugal at geral@icomos.pt.

Read more on the event website.

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