A year is a long time in Climate.
Ever since the October 2018 IPCC special report on climate change forecast 12 years to create the conditions to keep temperatures within safe limits, climate has, finally, exploded into the mainstream. Here we look back at a packed year, full of passions, programmes and provocations as we worked to inspire and equip the cultural sector to respond, with the urgent creativity required, to the #ClimateEmergency.
Climate Leadership and Training
We equip cultural professionals and artists with the knowledge and confidence to speak out and together on this issue, using their creativity to influence one another, audiences, and the wider movement.
CREATIVE GREEN AWARDS COMMON GROUND CREATIVE GREEN MASTERCLASSES SPOTLIGHT PEER EXCHANGE ACCELERATOR PEER EXCHANGE CREATIVE CLIMATE LEADERSHIP USA 08.03.20 GREEN TOURING CERTIFICATION WE MAKE TOMORROW 26.02.20
Advocacy
We advocate to, and for, culture to publicly inspire action on climate change and sustainability at a huge amount of events across the UK and beyond.
BELIEVE TO BRIGHTON THE GREAT ESCAPE, BRIGHTON WHAT NEXT? CLIMATE CHANGE ADE GREEN 2019, AMSTERDAM MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE GRANTHAM ART PRIZE, CHAIRED BY JB DIRECTOR ALISON THEATRE + CLIMATE SUMMIT, BANFF CANADA COP 25, MADRID CLIMATE HERITAGE NETWORK GLOBAL LAUNCH, EDINBURGH
Campaigns
From the launch of the major music industry campaign #MusicDeclares to the major push for young people to #RegisterForClimate in the lead up to the general election, its certainly been a busy year.
New Resources
From ways to address catastrophic biodiversity loss to how best to choose renewable energy for your business; podcasts on Climate Justice to the role of museums and heritage in climate futures, we’ve created a wide range of audio-visual resources to inform and inspire.
CREATIVE SPACES FOR NATURE: BIODIVERSITY REPORT CLOSED LOOP PRINTING GUIDE THE COLOUR GREEN: CLIMATE JUSTICE PODCAST GUIDE TO BUYING SUSTAINABLY SOURCED POWER FUNDERS+CLIMATE REPORT – JB PARTNERED ON HERITAGE CHAPTER WEBINAR: SPEAKING GREEN – HOW TO SHARE YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL STORY SUSTAINABILITY IN FASHION REPORT GREEN HERITAGE FUTURES PODCAST
International Policy
Much of JB’s work takes on the global context of the role of cities in addressing the climate crisis, from our pan European C-Change programme to our work with C40 cities, take a look at some of our key moments.
C-CHANGE EUROPEAN CLIMATE CITIES CREATIVE CLIMATE CITIES C40 WORLD MAYORS SUMMIT SMART CITIES AS SUSTAINABLE CITIES
Awards
We’ve been galvanised to work ever harder by three key awards this year for our work, and that of the wider Music Declares movement.
JB WINS WOMEX PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARD ALISON TICKELL WINS TONIC AWARD MDE WINS IMPALA OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
In the media
We’ve featured in a range of podcasts and programmes exploring climate and culture throughout the year – with media appearances spiking in November after Coldplay and Massive Attack made public commitments to urgently address the impacts of touring.
CHIARA BADIALI ON CLIMATE + VINYL CATHERINE BOTTRILL ON ART + CLIMATE ALISON TICKELL ON STORIES THAT MATTER TALKING MUSIC + CLIMATE ON BBC RADIO SCOTLAND (from 1:43:06) TALKING MUSIC AND CLIMATE ON RADIO 5 LIVE (from 1:55:41) ALISON TICKELL ON BBC WORLD NEWS TALKING ART + CLIMATE