See also the exhibition case study by Teo.

It is the outcome of a series of interviews and workshops with a broad range of small creative practitioners and businesses in the Watershed and Pervasive Media Studio community.

While this guidance is not museum sector specific, it provides a useful framework for museums.

• Theory of change – creating a social mandate for climate action, a report setting out why broad-based public engagement in climate action is so important.

• Communicating climate justice with young adults in Europe, a report on how young people across Europe understand and respond to climate justice messaging.

The Culture Takes Action toolkit is aimed at practitioners and organisations in the arts, heritage and design sectors, outlining a three-stage process to develop a policy and action plan in response to the emergency.

The project has also produced a series of online conversations on the theme No Going Back.

The organisation has also produced the Museums Environmental Framework resource, building on the environmental practice and leadership of a vital part of the UK’s cultural sector.

Julie’s Bicycle has also launched the Creative Climate Justice Hub, a dynamic library of climate justice resources curated for the arts and culture community.

The LGA has also published a sustainable procurement toolkit for commissioners, procurement practitioners and contract managers to help them deliver local environmental, economic and social priorities.

• The Mobilising Museums for Climate Action toolkit to help museums to understand, plan, deliver and communicate climate action.

• A website with a range of inspirational concepts of possible museums, as well as links to organisations and networks, and other resources to support climate action.

• An open-access book, Reimagining Museums for Climate Action, which is an extended catalogue of the exhibition.

• Activism

• Collecting

• Declaring an emergency

• Processes and practices

In addition, the April/May 2022 issue of News in Conservation focused on sustainability and climate action in conservation.

One outcome of the Roots & Branches project is a carbon literacy toolkit for the museum sector, now available to all UK museums.

• Essential read: Environmental Responsibility (Arts Council England)

• Investment principles: Environmental Responsibility (Arts Council England)

The museum also sets out the steps it took to put sustainable practice at the heart of its 2018 exhibition, Beavers to Weavers: The wonderful world of animal makers, in Creating a Sustainable Exhibition.

The National Archives has also published information on its energy, environment and sustainability.

The full report is available on the NMDC website, including the presentations and panel discussions on the day as well as results from live voting by attendees in response to questions on critical issues and proposals for collective action. An executive summary of the report is also available to download.

Hosted by the Natural History Museum, London, the community of practice exists digitally, through webinars and newsletters, and at in-person gatherings delivered with community members.

Museums 2030 contact information form

Radical Ecology has explored developments taking place in siloed strands of work including equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), sustainability and decolonisation, identifying common objectives and challenges as well as best practices that shine through across the UK cultural and heritage sectors.

They have further considered that when seen not as separate siloes but as a unified whole, this work begins to reveal what they call a framework for environmental justice – a joined up strategy for facing the future from the heart of our cultural institutions.

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