Climate Week NYC 2026
Will you be in New York for this year’s Climate Week? CHN will be there, featuring the work of our Imagining Futures project from the last two years. Look for CHN leaders and member organizations at these exciting events next week!
Heritage Adapts!
Hosted with partners Preserving Legacies and World Monuments Fund
3:00 - 4:00 pm Thursday, September 24
Climate change is an urgent threat to heritage sites and cultural practices worldwide. With a strong El Niño forecast for 2026–27, the time is now to prioritize adaptation. Join culture and heritage professionals and organizations from the Heritage Adapts! global coalition to learn how you can take action to safeguard your heritage, with the support of free training, tools, and a global community. Stay for the Culture & Heritage @ Climate Week NYC Reception immediately after to meet others from the New York City area and around the world who are on the same mission. We adapt better together!
Scaling Global Climate Solutions through Culture and Heritage
Hosted by CHN, Built Buildings Lab, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Gensler Family AAP NYC Center, ICOMOS, ICLEI, World Monuments Fund, and Architecture 2030
8:00 - 11:30 am Friday, September 25
Heritage-informed decarbonization applies the wisdom, places, and practices of the past to minimize greenhouse gas emissions in the present and future. It safeguards and generates cultural value—the shared practices and identities that connect people to each other. Heritage-informed decarbonization solutions include the use of traditional, repairable, low-carbon materials; materials salvage and reuse; heating, cooling, and ventilation strategies; climate-responsive design features; occupant behaviors; urban planning practices; cultural practices and relationships; and the recovery, restoration, and transmission of knowledge. Through its Action Agenda, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has recognized the Plan to Accelerate Heritage-Informed Building Decarbonization as a framework to scale these proven solutions through policy.