Features: Culture as a Cornerstone for Sustainable Development

0:00 Culture, a Cornerstone for sustainable development. Read by me, Katherine Pine heart. Culture and cultural heritage have unique abilities, to imagine, and push forward sustainability efforts. Especially at the local scale, not only can cultural assets, be a source of creative collaboration and strengthen social cohesion, but they can also be included in planning to create livable inclusive communities.

0:27 The link between culture and the transition to a livable Equitable. Future has long been coming into focus on a global scale agenda 2030 the United Nations. Is resolution that first articulated. The global sustainable development goals integrates culture and Heritage into Target 11.4. Europe has also made strides to incorporate culture into sustainable development through initiatives, like the new European Bauhaus and the European green deal, but this trend needs to go further. Such that culture is fully recognized as a tool for driving circular economy initiatives, rethinking resource and energy consumption protecting historic buildings and forging a just transition.

1:11 Culture is intertwined with the fabric of our communities. As such, it is necessarily a part of transitions to a sustainable future. In a brand-new briefing paper culture and cultural heritage, a key asset for sustainable development. And transition in cities, it claimed makes the case for culture.

1:30 As a key part of sustainable development conversations and provides opportunities to strengthen the link between sustainability and cultural heritage opportunities, as diverse as our shared cultural assets themselves from repurposing abandoned or vacant buildings to protecting historic areas from climate hazards. Or even crafting new architectural and urban planning practices based on Creative engagement strategies. Some of the main recommendations of the briefing paper suggests thinking holistically and addressing environmental and socio-cultural issues together.

2:07 Applying sustainability goals to historic buildings pursuing training, on the cultural elements of climate action, and creating pilot projects that meaningfully engage the cultural sector in sustainability efforts, equal Europe, Includes culture and cultural heritage as one of its main streams of work with experience from many projects that blend culture with other sustainable development. Priorities from climate adaptation to sustainable tourism.

2:33 What's more many Acclaim members? Share a close position that there is immense value in integrating culture with other local priorities as Timo, Hinson and director of urban planning for a clay member turku in Finland. Asserts culture has a lot to do with the well-being and attractive - of a city which are a part of sustainability as well.

2:54 We are trying to develop our cultural life in a sustainable way. Therefore culture in turku is seen, as a way to promote sustainability, and as a sphere to become more sustainable itself, eglise dedication to centering culture is taken a step further through membership, in the cultural heritage expert group of the European commission, the climate Heritage Network, the EU task force for climate neutral and resilient. Historic urban districts via the arc project and the urban agenda for the EU partnership on sustainable tourism. Equal Europe is also taking part in the establishment of a European Heritage Hub.

3:33 Starting this spring a platform that will bring cultural heritage stakeholders and initiatives together and run for two years. The pilot project funded by the European Union, pools resources, and expertise from Key European Partners to establish the largest ever. Cultural heritage driven movement that is not to say that pairing cultural heritage and sustainability is always easy as me. Upon--and senior, EU advisor in turku explains a question. We still have is how to use culture to inspire people to act and change for climate action.

4:10 There is a lot of potential for strengthening collaboration with turku and the Arts and creativity sector. For this purpose, we estimate that turku can achieve half of the desired. As reductions but the second half needs to come from citizens and other stakeholders. Therefore, this connection is important without culture, climate and other sustainability efforts are incomplete missing.

4:34 Not only a significant part of what is at stake but also a potential part of the path. Forward for guidance on how to put this idea into action, read the full briefing paper linked in the episode notes. To read this month's feature for yourself. Check out the E clear up newsletter. You can subscribe to the newsletter by heading over to equal a hyphen Europe, dot org forward, slash newsletter. This is the best way to stay on top of all equal, Europe, news and events.

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