Environment & Sustainability

The European Green Deal highlights the importance of the cultural sector in the implementation of specific and systematic efforts towards carbon neutrality and climate resilience across Europe by 2050.

This fourth edition of the Tracker includes three articles which foreground different aspects of sustainability for the creative and cultural sectors.

Fruit des travaux du groupe de travail « Défis environnementaux » et de l’atelier « Veille artistique » de la Direction générale de la création artistique du ministère de la Culture, ce numéro spécial a pour objectif de documenter, d’enrichir et de diffuser les ressources sur les liens étroits entre écologie et création artistique.

This new Creative Europe Programme strategy identifies areas where actions are needed and puts forward recommendations on what could be practically done to ‘green’ the Creative Europe Programme in the foreseeable future.

Videos and resources from the 2023 Cultural Mobility Forum.

Navigate the jungle of EU law and get a better understanding of the many initiatives related to the EU Green Deal.

Five conversations with arts leaders and artists from various geographical zones and contexts, about the question of sustainable international work in the arts.

With environment and sustainability as its framework, this publication looks back on activity in 2022 in order to get a picture of where the international cultural mobility sector stands today, and a sense of where it might be heading next. Along the way, it also checks in on trends in digital mobility (the focus of the 2022 Yearbook).

The SHIFT Eco-Guidelines for Networks recognise and address the ecological footprint associated with operating international cultural network and platform-organisations.

On 5 and 6 October 2022, the Where to land Forum brought together 130+ European performing arts professionals at the Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne, with the aim to engage into a new series of measures for the performing arts sector that would tackle the climate emergency.

Imagining and Realising Climate Resilient Futures: The Power of Arts, Culture and Heritage to Accelerate Climate Action is a manifesto that provides key messages on culture and climate change aimed at the 2022 United Nations Climate Conference (COP27) and beyond.

The research publication Environmental Sustainability in Contemporary Dance: Emerging Issues, Practises and Recommendations provides the context, references and examples of where and how dance intersects with environmental sustainability, and which set of actions can lead to effective action.