«Cultural figures from around the world are pushing for the arts, culture and heritage to be formally included in the final communiqué at the Cop29 international climate summit concluding in Baku, Azerbaijan, this week.
The main issues on the table at these annual meetings are normally related to carbon emission reductions, the building of renewable energy and mobilising climate funding to support vulnerable nations.
This year, however, there is a notable push to ensure that culture is given a more prominent role in the process and to have a bigger seat at the table at future meetings. Arts campaigners argue culture can play a role in both tackling the causes of climate change and helping cultural sites adapt to extreme weather.
Dorine Dubois, the chief of the executive of the culture sector at Unesco, described culture as the “forgotten, decisive factor when it comes to climate change”. She was speaking at an event at Cop29 discussing the campaign to get culture formal recognition.(...)».
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