Curating transformation: minimising losses and damages from climate change to heritage

This podcast discuss impact of climate change on cultural and natural heritage, and the evolving strategies for adaptation, with a particular focus on Africa.

Content is drawn form the following research from the Climate Risk Lab:

• African Heritage Sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01280-1
• Curating transformation can strengthen adaptation and minimise losses and damages. npj Climate Action. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-025-00210-z
• Decolonising climate change-heritage research, Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01279-8
• White Paper II: Impacts, vulnerability, and understanding risks of climate change for culture and heritage: Contribution of Impacts Group II to the International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change. Charenton-le-Pont & Paris, France: ICOMOS & ICSM CHC, URL: https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2718/
• Heritage adaptation to climate change: reducing risk and harnessing opportunities. ODI Working Paper. London: ODI Global, www.odi.org/en/publications/heritage-adaption-to-climate-change-reducingrisk-and-harnessing-opportunities/