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
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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!
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
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...
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
🇧🇷🇨🇴 Climate Custodian Carlos del Cairo met with fellow custodians Luana Campos & Denir Marcus in Corumbá, Brazil, for the 2nd Meeting on #Archaeology & #AncientHistory in the #Pantanal.
When heritage leaders come together, we build more than knowledge; we build futures. 🌿
When heritage leaders come together, we build more than knowledge; we build futures. 🌿
July 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
🇧🇷🇨🇴 Climate Custodian Carlos del Cairo met with fellow custodians Luana Campos & Denir Marcus in Corumbá, Brazil, for the 2nd Meeting on #Archaeology & #AncientHistory in the #Pantanal.
When heritage leaders come together, we build more than knowledge; we build futures. 🌿
When heritage leaders come together, we build more than knowledge; we build futures. 🌿
Climate Custodians from around the world are leading values-based, locally grounded climate action.
From fishing stories in Tunisia to student collages in Brazil, their work shows why community is at the center of real climate resilience.
📰 Read more: www.heritageadapts.org/post/preserv...
From fishing stories in Tunisia to student collages in Brazil, their work shows why community is at the center of real climate resilience.
📰 Read more: www.heritageadapts.org/post/preserv...
July 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Climate Custodians from around the world are leading values-based, locally grounded climate action.
From fishing stories in Tunisia to student collages in Brazil, their work shows why community is at the center of real climate resilience.
📰 Read more: www.heritageadapts.org/post/preserv...
From fishing stories in Tunisia to student collages in Brazil, their work shows why community is at the center of real climate resilience.
📰 Read more: www.heritageadapts.org/post/preserv...
Last week, we teamed up with #Worldmonumentsfund for their #CultivatingResilience program, sharing tools, stories, and strategies to power climate action at cultural sites.
Excited to keep growing these connections and skills together!
📸: Dario Rugerio
Excited to keep growing these connections and skills together!
📸: Dario Rugerio
July 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Last week, we teamed up with #Worldmonumentsfund for their #CultivatingResilience program, sharing tools, stories, and strategies to power climate action at cultural sites.
Excited to keep growing these connections and skills together!
📸: Dario Rugerio
Excited to keep growing these connections and skills together!
📸: Dario Rugerio
🎉 Congrats to our amazing project manager, Tina Paterno, for serving as an expert panelist at the International Conference & Workshop on Revitalising Industrial Heritage for #SustainableDevelopment! Hosted by #SouthwestJiaotongUniversity & HKU’s MSc Conservation Program.
June 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
🎉 Congrats to our amazing project manager, Tina Paterno, for serving as an expert panelist at the International Conference & Workshop on Revitalising Industrial Heritage for #SustainableDevelopment! Hosted by #SouthwestJiaotongUniversity & HKU’s MSc Conservation Program.
Our Director of Storytelling, Michel Snyder, traveled with our climate custodians to capture resilience in action. These stories prove the power of visual storytelling in climate adaptation and heritage. @nationalgeographic.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Our Director of Storytelling, Michel Snyder, traveled with our climate custodians to capture resilience in action. These stories prove the power of visual storytelling in climate adaptation and heritage. @nationalgeographic.bsky.social
Day 2 at #SB62 The #IPCC announced its plan to center justice and equity in the forthcoming AR7 Working Group II adaptation assessment — a major boost for inclusive climate policy.
#bonnbabybonn #UNFCCC #Bonngermany #culturebasedclimateaction
#bonnbabybonn #UNFCCC #Bonngermany #culturebasedclimateaction
June 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Day 2 at #SB62 The #IPCC announced its plan to center justice and equity in the forthcoming AR7 Working Group II adaptation assessment — a major boost for inclusive climate policy.
#bonnbabybonn #UNFCCC #Bonngermany #culturebasedclimateaction
#bonnbabybonn #UNFCCC #Bonngermany #culturebasedclimateaction
Day 1 at #SB62 in #Bonn was unforgettable! Our Director of Community, @andrewspotts.bsky.social, joined the #GFCBCA side event panel, sharing the stage with Ana Toni (COP30 CEO) and HE Abdulla Ahmed Balalaa (UAE Sustainability Minister. #Culturebased #climateaction became the center stage! #UNFCCC
June 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Day 1 at #SB62 in #Bonn was unforgettable! Our Director of Community, @andrewspotts.bsky.social, joined the #GFCBCA side event panel, sharing the stage with Ana Toni (COP30 CEO) and HE Abdulla Ahmed Balalaa (UAE Sustainability Minister. #Culturebased #climateaction became the center stage! #UNFCCC
🚨 Exciting update! Our Executive Director, Dr. Victoria Herrmann, a Geographer & #NationalGeographicExplorer, is in the 2025 #NationalGeographicExplorersFest
#Xfest2025 brings together explorers, scientists, and storytellers working to inspire real-world solutions for our planet.
#Xfest2025 brings together explorers, scientists, and storytellers working to inspire real-world solutions for our planet.
June 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
🚨 Exciting update! Our Executive Director, Dr. Victoria Herrmann, a Geographer & #NationalGeographicExplorer, is in the 2025 #NationalGeographicExplorersFest
#Xfest2025 brings together explorers, scientists, and storytellers working to inspire real-world solutions for our planet.
#Xfest2025 brings together explorers, scientists, and storytellers working to inspire real-world solutions for our planet.
We’re thrilled to share that @andrewspotts.bsky.social, our Director of Community, has been awarded the #2025WatchAward by #WorldMonumentsFund 🌍
This award honors years of work bringing #heritage into the heart of #climateaction and making sure #policy centers people, place, and #resilience.
This award honors years of work bringing #heritage into the heart of #climateaction and making sure #policy centers people, place, and #resilience.
June 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We’re thrilled to share that @andrewspotts.bsky.social, our Director of Community, has been awarded the #2025WatchAward by #WorldMonumentsFund 🌍
This award honors years of work bringing #heritage into the heart of #climateaction and making sure #policy centers people, place, and #resilience.
This award honors years of work bringing #heritage into the heart of #climateaction and making sure #policy centers people, place, and #resilience.
Last week in Bagerhat. From kids’ art to climate action, the community came together to map what matters most and what’s most at risk from climate change.
📣 Local media helped spread the word: dailynewnation.com/climate-risk...
#locallyled #climateaction #heritage
📣 Local media helped spread the word: dailynewnation.com/climate-risk...
#locallyled #climateaction #heritage
May 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Last week in Bagerhat. From kids’ art to climate action, the community came together to map what matters most and what’s most at risk from climate change.
📣 Local media helped spread the word: dailynewnation.com/climate-risk...
#locallyled #climateaction #heritage
📣 Local media helped spread the word: dailynewnation.com/climate-risk...
#locallyled #climateaction #heritage
Shoutout to our Director of Storytelling, Michael O Snyder, who’s been capturing impact-driven stories from Bhutan 🇧🇹 and Mongolia 🇲🇳 these past weeks. His lens brings climate + heritage to life, can’t wait to share what’s coming! 📽️
May 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Shoutout to our Director of Storytelling, Michael O Snyder, who’s been capturing impact-driven stories from Bhutan 🇧🇹 and Mongolia 🇲🇳 these past weeks. His lens brings climate + heritage to life, can’t wait to share what’s coming! 📽️
Cultural heritage is climate adaptation.
At #AC27, Darius Ankamah showed how youth and tradition can drive global resilience. Time to center heritage in the climate conversation.
🔗 Read the full blog here: www.heritageadapts.org/post/insight...
#HeritageForClimate #Adaptation #UNFCCC
At #AC27, Darius Ankamah showed how youth and tradition can drive global resilience. Time to center heritage in the climate conversation.
🔗 Read the full blog here: www.heritageadapts.org/post/insight...
#HeritageForClimate #Adaptation #UNFCCC
May 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Cultural heritage is climate adaptation.
At #AC27, Darius Ankamah showed how youth and tradition can drive global resilience. Time to center heritage in the climate conversation.
🔗 Read the full blog here: www.heritageadapts.org/post/insight...
#HeritageForClimate #Adaptation #UNFCCC
At #AC27, Darius Ankamah showed how youth and tradition can drive global resilience. Time to center heritage in the climate conversation.
🔗 Read the full blog here: www.heritageadapts.org/post/insight...
#HeritageForClimate #Adaptation #UNFCCC
We're thrilled to see our newest cohort sites gaining local media recognition!
The Okavango Delta was featured in The Ngami Times, and The Flower Path Pollinator Initiative was spotlighted by Questa del Rio News, celebrating their commitment towards a better future.
@inamariashikongo.bsky.social
The Okavango Delta was featured in The Ngami Times, and The Flower Path Pollinator Initiative was spotlighted by Questa del Rio News, celebrating their commitment towards a better future.
@inamariashikongo.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We're thrilled to see our newest cohort sites gaining local media recognition!
The Okavango Delta was featured in The Ngami Times, and The Flower Path Pollinator Initiative was spotlighted by Questa del Rio News, celebrating their commitment towards a better future.
@inamariashikongo.bsky.social
The Okavango Delta was featured in The Ngami Times, and The Flower Path Pollinator Initiative was spotlighted by Questa del Rio News, celebrating their commitment towards a better future.
@inamariashikongo.bsky.social
Today Dr. Sarah Forgesson & Dr. Will Megarry joined #ICAHM in Chile for a powerful #ClimateLiteracy workshop with @icomos.bsky.social. They shared insights on adaptive capacity, plural knowledge systems & locally led climate action. Thank you to all who made it possible!
May 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Today Dr. Sarah Forgesson & Dr. Will Megarry joined #ICAHM in Chile for a powerful #ClimateLiteracy workshop with @icomos.bsky.social. They shared insights on adaptive capacity, plural knowledge systems & locally led climate action. Thank you to all who made it possible!
We’re honored to see PL and The @greatspatowns.bsky.social featured in @euronews.com
“Heritage is the bedrock of local economies through tourism, craftsmanship, and agriculture.” Victoria Herrmann
“Preserving Legacies will embed resilience into the 2027 Management Plan," says Chiara Ronchini.
“Heritage is the bedrock of local economies through tourism, craftsmanship, and agriculture.” Victoria Herrmann
“Preserving Legacies will embed resilience into the 2027 Management Plan," says Chiara Ronchini.
April 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We’re honored to see PL and The @greatspatowns.bsky.social featured in @euronews.com
“Heritage is the bedrock of local economies through tourism, craftsmanship, and agriculture.” Victoria Herrmann
“Preserving Legacies will embed resilience into the 2027 Management Plan," says Chiara Ronchini.
“Heritage is the bedrock of local economies through tourism, craftsmanship, and agriculture.” Victoria Herrmann
“Preserving Legacies will embed resilience into the 2027 Management Plan," says Chiara Ronchini.
We just announced: 12 New Heritage Sites added to our Cohort Program!
These sites were selected from over 150 applications to begin their journey in our 3-year climate adaptation program.
Welcome to the newest climate custodians committed to building community resilience!
These sites were selected from over 150 applications to begin their journey in our 3-year climate adaptation program.
Welcome to the newest climate custodians committed to building community resilience!
April 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
We just announced: 12 New Heritage Sites added to our Cohort Program!
These sites were selected from over 150 applications to begin their journey in our 3-year climate adaptation program.
Welcome to the newest climate custodians committed to building community resilience!
These sites were selected from over 150 applications to begin their journey in our 3-year climate adaptation program.
Welcome to the newest climate custodians committed to building community resilience!
Day 2 at @climate-chance.bsky.social: Local actors & citizens are key to climate adaptation! Today’s workshop explored participatory strategies, tools & local initiatives for place-based solutions. What works, what’s next? #SCCEA2025
@energycities.bsky.social #SébastienBarles #LaurenceTommasino
@energycities.bsky.social #SébastienBarles #LaurenceTommasino
April 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Day 2 at @climate-chance.bsky.social: Local actors & citizens are key to climate adaptation! Today’s workshop explored participatory strategies, tools & local initiatives for place-based solutions. What works, what’s next? #SCCEA2025
@energycities.bsky.social #SébastienBarles #LaurenceTommasino
@energycities.bsky.social #SébastienBarles #LaurenceTommasino
Our team members, Dr. Salma Sabour, Delie Ronsin-Quechon, and Climate Custodian Ibrahim Tchan are at @climate-chance.bsky.social today, advocating for just, local, and systemic climate adaptation today! #ClimateAction #sccea2025 #marseille
April 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Our team members, Dr. Salma Sabour, Delie Ronsin-Quechon, and Climate Custodian Ibrahim Tchan are at @climate-chance.bsky.social today, advocating for just, local, and systemic climate adaptation today! #ClimateAction #sccea2025 #marseille
From reactive to anticipatory: Climate adaptation must prepare, not just repair. At @climate-chance.bsky.social conference in #Marseille, experts stressed the urgency of local, just & systemic action. #climatechance #sccea2025 @ronandantec.bsky.social @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu
April 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
From reactive to anticipatory: Climate adaptation must prepare, not just repair. At @climate-chance.bsky.social conference in #Marseille, experts stressed the urgency of local, just & systemic action. #climatechance #sccea2025 @ronandantec.bsky.social @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu
"We need to shift from risk assessment to risk action."
Our Director of Science, Dr. Salma Sabour, reflects on the @gettymuseum.bsky.social Foundation’s expert meeting on Archaeological Heritage in a Changing Climate in #Rome, championing locally led, place-based adaptation strategies #ClimateAction
Our Director of Science, Dr. Salma Sabour, reflects on the @gettymuseum.bsky.social Foundation’s expert meeting on Archaeological Heritage in a Changing Climate in #Rome, championing locally led, place-based adaptation strategies #ClimateAction
March 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"We need to shift from risk assessment to risk action."
Our Director of Science, Dr. Salma Sabour, reflects on the @gettymuseum.bsky.social Foundation’s expert meeting on Archaeological Heritage in a Changing Climate in #Rome, championing locally led, place-based adaptation strategies #ClimateAction
Our Director of Science, Dr. Salma Sabour, reflects on the @gettymuseum.bsky.social Foundation’s expert meeting on Archaeological Heritage in a Changing Climate in #Rome, championing locally led, place-based adaptation strategies #ClimateAction