Preserving Legacies
@preservinglegacies.bsky.social
We empower communities to safeguard their heritage against the impacts of climate change, ensuring a future for our past.
https://linktr.ee/preservinglegacies
https://linktr.ee/preservinglegacies
Join us at the Resilience Hub on Nov 10 at 12:30 (Brazil time) for the Global Center on Adaptation’s #LocalAdaptationChampionsAwards! 🏆 We’re honored to be nominated in the Citizen #Science category, celebrating #locallyled #climateaction. Tune in live at 🔗 llahub.gca.org. Wish us luck!
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Join us at the Resilience Hub on Nov 10 at 12:30 (Brazil time) for the Global Center on Adaptation’s #LocalAdaptationChampionsAwards! 🏆 We’re honored to be nominated in the Citizen #Science category, celebrating #locallyled #climateaction. Tune in live at 🔗 llahub.gca.org. Wish us luck!
Our Director of Community, @andrewspotts.bsky.social, along with Marcele Oliveira and Alison Tickell, co-authored a series of articles exploring how culture, heritage, and creativity can bridge the gap between climate policy and people’s lived realities.
🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...
🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...
There has always been a culture -sized hole in UN climate negotiations: Will COP30 Help Fill It?
To get climate action back on track, COP30 must urgently address the cultural enablers and barriers to transformative change
midianinja.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Our Director of Community, @andrewspotts.bsky.social, along with Marcele Oliveira and Alison Tickell, co-authored a series of articles exploring how culture, heritage, and creativity can bridge the gap between climate policy and people’s lived realities.
🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...
🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...
Tea, tofu, and typhoons 🍵🌪️ in Shenkeng, Taiwan, heritage meets climate action.
See how custodians are blending tradition and innovation to brew resilience: www.heritageadapts.org/post/shenken...
See how custodians are blending tradition and innovation to brew resilience: www.heritageadapts.org/post/shenken...
Shenkeng District Completes Climate Risk & Adaptation Workshop
Shenkeng District recently completed their locally led climate risk assessment and adaptation planning workshop—a three-day convening of diverse stakeholders that marked the culmination of months of c...
www.heritageadapts.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Tea, tofu, and typhoons 🍵🌪️ in Shenkeng, Taiwan, heritage meets climate action.
See how custodians are blending tradition and innovation to brew resilience: www.heritageadapts.org/post/shenken...
See how custodians are blending tradition and innovation to brew resilience: www.heritageadapts.org/post/shenken...
Applications are open for the 2026 Climate Heritage Cohort Program!
A 3-year journey for community leaders to protect heritage and build resilience in the face of climate change.
Learn. Assess. Act!
Apply by January 5, 2026 → www.heritageadapts.org/post/2026-co...
A 3-year journey for community leaders to protect heritage and build resilience in the face of climate change.
Learn. Assess. Act!
Apply by January 5, 2026 → www.heritageadapts.org/post/2026-co...
Applications Are Now Open for the 2026 Climate Heritage Cohort Program!
The 2026 cohort program application is now open! Apply by January 5 to be considered for this transformative three-year journey to preserve your community's heritage places and practices against the i...
www.heritageadapts.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Applications are open for the 2026 Climate Heritage Cohort Program!
A 3-year journey for community leaders to protect heritage and build resilience in the face of climate change.
Learn. Assess. Act!
Apply by January 5, 2026 → www.heritageadapts.org/post/2026-co...
A 3-year journey for community leaders to protect heritage and build resilience in the face of climate change.
Learn. Assess. Act!
Apply by January 5, 2026 → www.heritageadapts.org/post/2026-co...
Princess Dana opened the High-Level Dialogue of the Group of Friends for Culture-Based Climate Action in Barcelona #mondicult. "Thank you for your continued efforts in advancing our shared vision to place culture and heritage at the very heart of climate action."
October 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Princess Dana opened the High-Level Dialogue of the Group of Friends for Culture-Based Climate Action in Barcelona #mondicult. "Thank you for your continued efforts in advancing our shared vision to place culture and heritage at the very heart of climate action."
Last week at #ClimateWeekNYC, @andrewspotts.bsky.social joined Activation Group 19 with the @cop30brazil.bsky.social Presidency & Climate Champions to advance the #COP30 Action Agenda on culture, heritage, and climate action. 🌍
October 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Last week at #ClimateWeekNYC, @andrewspotts.bsky.social joined Activation Group 19 with the @cop30brazil.bsky.social Presidency & Climate Champions to advance the #COP30 Action Agenda on culture, heritage, and climate action. 🌍
🌍 At the #UCLG Culture Summit in #Barcelona, Juli Polanco (CA State Historic Preservation Officer) highlighted how partnerships + culture drive climate resilience, featuring Preserving Legacies & the CA–Scripps Climate Assessment.
🔗 agenda21culture.net/summit/6th-uclg-culture-summit-2025
🔗 agenda21culture.net/summit/6th-uclg-culture-summit-2025
October 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🌍 At the #UCLG Culture Summit in #Barcelona, Juli Polanco (CA State Historic Preservation Officer) highlighted how partnerships + culture drive climate resilience, featuring Preserving Legacies & the CA–Scripps Climate Assessment.
🔗 agenda21culture.net/summit/6th-uclg-culture-summit-2025
🔗 agenda21culture.net/summit/6th-uclg-culture-summit-2025
Reposted by Preserving Legacies
Fantastic description by @salmasabour.bsky.social of the locally-led risk & adaptation workshop in Mongolia supported by @preservinglegacies.bsky.social. Sacred landscapes, nomadic lifeways, traditional knowledge all played into identifying values, priorities & action pathways.
#climateheritage 🌏
#climateheritage 🌏
Kherlen River Basin Completes Locally Led Climate Risk & Adaptation Workshop
Kherlen River Basin custodians Saku Saruu and Suvdaa Suvd are kicking off locally led climate risk and adaptation workshop season here at Preserving Legacies!
www.heritageadapts.org
September 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Fantastic description by @salmasabour.bsky.social of the locally-led risk & adaptation workshop in Mongolia supported by @preservinglegacies.bsky.social. Sacred landscapes, nomadic lifeways, traditional knowledge all played into identifying values, priorities & action pathways.
#climateheritage 🌏
#climateheritage 🌏
Reposted by Preserving Legacies
🧵🧪 In session on policy and societal requirements at the Royal Society discussion meeting today, Prof Hans-Otto Pörtner, former Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II, stated that he thinks keeping global temperature rise "below 1.5 [°C above pre-industrial] is probably now out of reach".
September 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🧵🧪 In session on policy and societal requirements at the Royal Society discussion meeting today, Prof Hans-Otto Pörtner, former Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II, stated that he thinks keeping global temperature rise "below 1.5 [°C above pre-industrial] is probably now out of reach".
Reposted by Preserving Legacies
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
#ClimateHeritage
🔗Learn more: www.heritageadapts.org/community
#ClimateHeritage
Community of Action
www.heritageadapts.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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
#ClimateHeritage
🔗Learn more: www.heritageadapts.org/community
#ClimateHeritage
Reposted by Preserving Legacies
Meeting today during #ClimateWeekNYC of Activation Group 19 i.e. folks working with the @cop30brazil.bsky.social Presidency & Climate High-Level Champions to help deliver the COP30 Action Agenda objective on Culture, cultural heritage protection & climate action. 50 days to Belém! #ClimateHeritage
September 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Meeting today during #ClimateWeekNYC of Activation Group 19 i.e. folks working with the @cop30brazil.bsky.social Presidency & Climate High-Level Champions to help deliver the COP30 Action Agenda objective on Culture, cultural heritage protection & climate action. 50 days to Belém! #ClimateHeritage
Reposted by Preserving Legacies
At today’s COP30 Activation Group meeting on culture & heritage, presenting the Heritage Adapts! 3000 x 2030 plan to accelerate adaptation for heritage sites & cultures practices, w/ @icomos.bsky.social @europanostra.bsky.social @preservinglegacies.bsky.social @climateheritage.bsky.social & more!
September 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
At today’s COP30 Activation Group meeting on culture & heritage, presenting the Heritage Adapts! 3000 x 2030 plan to accelerate adaptation for heritage sites & cultures practices, w/ @icomos.bsky.social @europanostra.bsky.social @preservinglegacies.bsky.social @climateheritage.bsky.social & more!
Honored to be a finalist for the 2025 Local Adaptation Champions Awards recognizing the power of heritage & community in building a climate-resilient future. 💙 #ClimateAction #Heritage
For more information: llahub.gca.org/articles/7c5...
For more information: llahub.gca.org/articles/7c5...
September 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Honored to be a finalist for the 2025 Local Adaptation Champions Awards recognizing the power of heritage & community in building a climate-resilient future. 💙 #ClimateAction #Heritage
For more information: llahub.gca.org/articles/7c5...
For more information: llahub.gca.org/articles/7c5...
#Culture + #climateaction are stronger together.
At #COP29, our Director of Community @andrewspotts.bsky.social highlighted how heritage helps communities adapt, share knowledge, and build resilience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7P3...
At #COP29, our Director of Community @andrewspotts.bsky.social highlighted how heritage helps communities adapt, share knowledge, and build resilience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7P3...
Unlocking the Power of the Culture, Heritage & Knowledge Provisions of the Global Goal on Adaptation
YouTube video by UN Climate Change - Events
www.youtube.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
#Culture + #climateaction are stronger together.
At #COP29, our Director of Community @andrewspotts.bsky.social highlighted how heritage helps communities adapt, share knowledge, and build resilience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7P3...
At #COP29, our Director of Community @andrewspotts.bsky.social highlighted how heritage helps communities adapt, share knowledge, and build resilience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7P3...
📖 Weekly read: 80% of #UNESCO #heritagesites are under #climatestress. A low-emission future could spare 40%, but urgent action is needed.
Through local, #communityled strategies, Preserving Legacies is helping safeguard the stories that connect us all. ✨
Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Through local, #communityled strategies, Preserving Legacies is helping safeguard the stories that connect us all. ✨
Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
World Cultural Heritage sites are under climate stress and no emissions mitigation pathways can uniformly protect them - Communications Earth & Environment
Approximately eighty percent of World Cultural Heritage sites already experience heat and moisture disturbances, and nearly nineteen percent of sites have stone or wood materials affected by the chang...
www.nature.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
📖 Weekly read: 80% of #UNESCO #heritagesites are under #climatestress. A low-emission future could spare 40%, but urgent action is needed.
Through local, #communityled strategies, Preserving Legacies is helping safeguard the stories that connect us all. ✨
Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Through local, #communityled strategies, Preserving Legacies is helping safeguard the stories that connect us all. ✨
Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
This week’s read 📚: Advances in complex #climatechange risk #assessment for #adaptation (Nature).
From cities to coastal zones to finance, new tools like #participatorymodeling & adaptation pathways are helping turn uncertainty into #climateaction. 🌍
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
From cities to coastal zones to finance, new tools like #participatorymodeling & adaptation pathways are helping turn uncertainty into #climateaction. 🌍
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Advances in complex climate change risk assessment for adaptation - npj Climate Action
Recent advances in climate change risk assessment and management and their application across cities, coastal zones, and finance highlight promising opportunities for near-term action to better govern...
www.nature.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This week’s read 📚: Advances in complex #climatechange risk #assessment for #adaptation (Nature).
From cities to coastal zones to finance, new tools like #participatorymodeling & adaptation pathways are helping turn uncertainty into #climateaction. 🌍
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
From cities to coastal zones to finance, new tools like #participatorymodeling & adaptation pathways are helping turn uncertainty into #climateaction. 🌍
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#COP30 presidency just announced this year’s thematic days. Nov 12–13: Health, Jobs, Education, #Culture, #Justice & #HumanRights, Info Integrity, Workers, + the first Global Ethical Stocktake. It’s the first time culture has been a #COP daily theme.
cop30.br/en/news-abou...
cop30.br/en/news-abou...
COP30 announces ambitious Thematic Days, invites the world to Belém
Daily debates are aligned with the Action Agenda and aim to engage civil society in discussions about real solutions for the climate
cop30.br
August 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
#COP30 presidency just announced this year’s thematic days. Nov 12–13: Health, Jobs, Education, #Culture, #Justice & #HumanRights, Info Integrity, Workers, + the first Global Ethical Stocktake. It’s the first time culture has been a #COP daily theme.
cop30.br/en/news-abou...
cop30.br/en/news-abou...
This July, our climate custodian, Ibrahim, was featured on the @metmuseum.org. The short film “Sikien of Koutammakou,” by Sosena Solomon, celebrates the Batammariba people and their Takienta earthen homes, icons of culture and climate resilience. 🌍🏛️
🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPrS...
🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPrS...
Sikien of Koutammakou, Republic of Benin and Togo | Africa’s Cultural Landmarks
YouTube video by The Met
www.youtube.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This July, our climate custodian, Ibrahim, was featured on the @metmuseum.org. The short film “Sikien of Koutammakou,” by Sosena Solomon, celebrates the Batammariba people and their Takienta earthen homes, icons of culture and climate resilience. 🌍🏛️
🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPrS...
🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPrS...
🌍 The #InternationalCourtofJustice just issued its Advisory Opinion on #climatechange obligations.
It doesn't mention #heritage outright, but it makes clear: protecting the climate and human rights = protecting the places, stories, and cultures we love.
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
It doesn't mention #heritage outright, but it makes clear: protecting the climate and human rights = protecting the places, stories, and cultures we love.
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
www.icj-cij.org
August 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
🌍 The #InternationalCourtofJustice just issued its Advisory Opinion on #climatechange obligations.
It doesn't mention #heritage outright, but it makes clear: protecting the climate and human rights = protecting the places, stories, and cultures we love.
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
It doesn't mention #heritage outright, but it makes clear: protecting the climate and human rights = protecting the places, stories, and cultures we love.
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
Tuvalu is building a digital nation, a cloud-based replica of its land, #governance, and #culture, because its physical islands may vanish within decades. Their strategy is one of hope, sovereignty, and #resilience in the face of #climatecollapse.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...
🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...
Facing extinction, Tuvalu considers the digital clone of a country
As the climate emergency threatens its existence, the tiny Pacific nation is not only trying to reclaim physical land but create a ‘twin’ to survive in future
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Tuvalu is building a digital nation, a cloud-based replica of its land, #governance, and #culture, because its physical islands may vanish within decades. Their strategy is one of hope, sovereignty, and #resilience in the face of #climatecollapse.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...
🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...
Meet Marlon M. Martin, lawyer turned #heritage protector in #Ifugao. As Executive Director of SITMo and a Preserving Legacies Climate Custodian, he blends #ancestralwisdom with science to safeguard the iconic rice terraces.
📍 Full spotlight here: www.heritageadapts.org/post/custodi...
📍 Full spotlight here: www.heritageadapts.org/post/custodi...
Custodian Spotlight: Meet Marlon M. Martin
From big city lawyer to local leader, Marlon was one of the first custodians to participate in the Preserving Legacies cohort program. Learn more about his journey to preserve his culture and the insi...
www.heritageadapts.org
July 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Meet Marlon M. Martin, lawyer turned #heritage protector in #Ifugao. As Executive Director of SITMo and a Preserving Legacies Climate Custodian, he blends #ancestralwisdom with science to safeguard the iconic rice terraces.
📍 Full spotlight here: www.heritageadapts.org/post/custodi...
📍 Full spotlight here: www.heritageadapts.org/post/custodi...
Batammariba women are builders of homes and memory.
Mothers of culture.
Keepers of heritage.
Resilience in motion.
#heritage #resilience #community
Mothers of culture.
Keepers of heritage.
Resilience in motion.
#heritage #resilience #community
July 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Batammariba women are builders of homes and memory.
Mothers of culture.
Keepers of heritage.
Resilience in motion.
#heritage #resilience #community
Mothers of culture.
Keepers of heritage.
Resilience in motion.
#heritage #resilience #community
📖 This article proposes a relational research model grounded in #Indigenousvalues, integrity, respect, humility, reciprocity, designed to mend colonial legacies in
#research.
ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss2/a...
#research.
ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss2/a...
Ecology & Society: A values-centered relational science model: supporting Indigenous rights and reconciliation in research
Addressing complex social-ecological issues requires all relevant sources of knowledge and data, especially those held by communities who remain close to the land. Centuries of oppression, extractive ...
ecologyandsociety.org
July 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
📖 This article proposes a relational research model grounded in #Indigenousvalues, integrity, respect, humility, reciprocity, designed to mend colonial legacies in
#research.
ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss2/a...
#research.
ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss2/a...
Climate data only matters if communities can use it.
Thanks to Dr. Salma Sabour’s leadership, we’re making climate science accessible & rooted in cultural context—so heritage custodians can lead adaptation.
Top-down science is out. Shared stewardship is in.
🔗 www.heritageadapts.org/post/democra...
Thanks to Dr. Salma Sabour’s leadership, we’re making climate science accessible & rooted in cultural context—so heritage custodians can lead adaptation.
Top-down science is out. Shared stewardship is in.
🔗 www.heritageadapts.org/post/democra...
Democratizing Scientific Climate Data and Services
Climate resilience for heritage places can only be achieved when heritage custodians and communities leading adaptation efforts have not only meaningful access to relevant scientific climate data prod...
www.heritageadapts.org
July 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Climate data only matters if communities can use it.
Thanks to Dr. Salma Sabour’s leadership, we’re making climate science accessible & rooted in cultural context—so heritage custodians can lead adaptation.
Top-down science is out. Shared stewardship is in.
🔗 www.heritageadapts.org/post/democra...
Thanks to Dr. Salma Sabour’s leadership, we’re making climate science accessible & rooted in cultural context—so heritage custodians can lead adaptation.
Top-down science is out. Shared stewardship is in.
🔗 www.heritageadapts.org/post/democra...
Reposted by Preserving Legacies
