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Museums and Disaster Risk Reduction: climate change
Climate change poses one of the most complex challenges facing society, as it is the consequence of a wide range of human activities, including industry, energy use, land use change, deforestation and agriculture, and human impacts on the oceans. Museums will be increasingly impacted by climate change, and they contribute to climate change through their greenhouse gas emissions.
1. Organize for disaster resilience Climate action is needed from all of society and all sectors, including museums. Institutions such as museums can play a particular role in bringing different stakeholders together. Museums will be much more effective if they work in true partnership and collaborate, learn from one another, make a collective difference, and tell a collective story. Increasingly, museum networks have been incorporating climate change into their list of concerns. ICOM adopted a resolution ‘On sustainability and the adoption of Agenda 2030, Transforming our World’ in 2019. The importance of museums’ current and potential roles is recognized in the Work Programme for the Paris Climate Agreement.
