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#WeAreBackIn! As the United States re-joins the #ParisAgreement, there's no better time to spotlight the central role that culture and heritage can & must play in transformative climate action. A THREAD.
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The @ICOMOS #FutureOfOurPasts report outlines the myriad ways cultural heritage supports achieving #ParisAgreement targets, incl heightening the ambition & capacity of communities to act, supporting climate adaptation, contributing to GHG mitigation & addressing loss & damage. /2
Our cultures in all their diversity; the wisdom, memory & identity embedded in our local and planetary heritage, inspires and heightens climate ambition: the will and means to achieve the objectives of the #ParisAgreement and win the #RacetoResilience. /3
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On the 5th anniversary of the #ParisAgreement, the General Assembly of @ICOMOS (the global cultural heritage NGO) has overwhelmingly voted to declare a Climate & Ecological Emergency.
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In 2017 @ICOMOS committed to mobilising for #ClimateAction, recognising that unprecedented concentrations of anthropogenic GHGs were changing the climate, it committed to delivering cultural heritage-based solutions to implement the #ParisAgreement.
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Since then, things have gotten worse. In 2018, @IPCC_CH found that climate change impacts on both human & natural systems may be long-lasting or *irreversible.* #SR15 Hard to hear if your job is safeguarding treasured heritage for future generations.🤯 ipcc.ch/sr15/download/ /3
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