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As part of Italy鈥檚 , over the past week a for the听G20 Culture Ministerial听have gathered experts, scholars and operators from all over the world to explore issues and create proposals concerning culture and heritage.听The multi-stakeholder webinars provided policymakers of G20 countries with the latest evidence to define clear policy objectives and to jointly pursue them through coordinated action and will听feed into G20 Culture Ministerial Meeting at the end of July this year.听

The experts interrogated identified pressing global concerns for culture; illicit trafficking of works of art, the effects of climate change on cultural heritage, the creative industries and the digital revolution. Professor May Cassar, Director of the 果冻影院 Institute for Sustainable Heritage contributed her expert opinion to the webinar on the second priority of 鈥楢ddressing the Climate Crisis Through Culture: Preserving Cultural Heritage, Supporting the Green Transition鈥�.听

Professor Cassar presented three key issues on climate change and cultural heritage and possible policy interventions.听First of all, she addressed our duty to protect cultural heritage from the impacts of climate change, alongside the duty for cultural heritage managers, policy makers and the public alike to ensure that cultural heritage helps where it can alleviate impacts on the planet. She identified a need for a 鈥渂alance relationship among people, patrimony and planet鈥�, stating that:

鈥�Cultural heritage endures because it is situated withing a community, a society, and does not stand alone.鈥�

In her second point, she highlighted how embedded intangible skills and knowledge within our historic buildings and environments can be a source of knowledge for how we respond to the climate emergency, construct our future buildings and cities more sustainably and for how we can live more in tune with the planet.

Her third and final point was to address the urgent need for policies to redress the balance between our dependence on fossil fuels to drive the environmental control systems that protect cultural heritage and the urgency to protect the planet from greenhouse gases that are harmful to the planet. She expressed that:

鈥�It is our responsibility to diversify our energy sources, otherwise we are colluding in the destruction of our planet and cultural heritage elsewhere鈥澨�

Watch Professor Cassar鈥檚 presentation on these key points, and recommended policy interventions from 1:40:00

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