COP26 and Climate Heritage Action Resources

In preparation for COP 26 in Glasgow ( October 31- November 11 2021) , we compiled a list of climate action resources for the heritage sector.

This list will continue to grow and evolve.

 

Big Picture Overviews

• TEDxCAHP (2020)
  • Building Reuse = Climate Action -Mark Thompson Brandt (Senior Conservation Architect & Firm Lead, MTBA Associates, Ltd., Ottawa)
  • Save Buildings, Fight Climate Change– Jennifer O’Connor (Executive Director, Athena Institute, Vancouver)
  • Conservation of Energy and Existing Heritage Values – Larissa Ide (Sustainability Engineering Intern, Stantec, Ottawa)
  • Existing Buildings Make Good Business– Kevin Bates (Developer, Sharp Development, Greensboro, Georgia)

• Climate Heritage Network
• Climate Adaptation: Making a Case to Leverage Existing and Historic Buildings for Zero Net Carbon Heritage BC. (2021)
• Accelerating Building Reuse Would Help Canada Meet its Climate Targets. Chris Wiebe. Policy Option (2021)
• Old Buildings, Climate Change, and the Race to Net Zero Carbon. Cynthia Gunn. Locale Magazine (2020)
• “Historic Buildings and the Race to Net-Zero Carbon.”Carl Elefante (President, AIA) & Edward Mazria (Architecture 2030). Keynote APT-NT Conference 2017.  Video or Transcript
• Gathering of the Heritage Sector – Inspiration from Europe’s “Green New Deal” and “Renovation Wave” May 19 2020   Graham Bell (Director, Cultura Trust UK, Board member Europa Nostra), Mark Thompson Brandt (Senior Conservation Architect & Firm Lead, MTBA Associates, Ltd., Ottawa)
• Gathering of the Heritage Sector – Communicating Heritage as Climate Action: Challenges and Opportunities. March 31 2021

 

Deeper Dives and Making Systemic Change

• National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Greenest Building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse. (2011)
• National Trust for Canada. Making Reuse the New Normal: Accelerating the Reuse and Retrofit of Canada’s Built Environment (2020)
• The Future of Our Pasts: Engaging Cultural Heritage in Climate Action (2019)
• Historic England. There’s No Place Like Old Homes: Re-use and Recycle to Reduce Carbon (2019)
• Europa Nostra. European Cultural Heritage Green Paper: Putting Europe’s Shared Heritage at the Heart of the European Green Deal. (March 2021)
• Federal Provincial Territorial Historic Places Collaboration. Building Resilience: Practical Guidelines for the Sustainable Rehabilitation of Buildings in Canada.
• Sizirici, B.; Fseha, Y.; Cho, C.-S.; Yildiz, I.; Byon, Y.-J. A Review of Carbon Footprint Reduction in Construction Industry, from Design to Operation. (2021).
• Historic England. ‘Commercial Renewable Energy Development and the Historic Environment.’ (2021).
• National Trust. ‘Renewable energy at our places’. (2021).
• Horizon 2020 CLIC project (2017-2021). ‘Circular models Leveraging Investments in Cultural heritage adaptive reuse.’
• Fusco Girard, L. (2019). ‘Implementing the circular economy: the role of cultural heritage as the entry point. Which evaluation approaches?’ (2019).
• Foster, G. ‘Circular economy strategies for adaptive reuse of cultural heritage buildings to reduce environmental impacts.’ Resources, Conservation and Recycling. (2020).
• Alessia Buda, Ernst Jan de Place Hansen et al. ‘Conservation-Compatible Retrofit Solutions in Historic Buildings: An Integrated Approach.’. (2021).
• Partnership on Circular Economy and Sustainable Land Use. ‘Sustainable and Circular reuse of spaces and buildings – Handbook.’ (2020).
• Environmental and Energy Study Institute. Cultural Heritage is a Necessary Component of Climate Solutions. (2020).

 

Gathering of the Heritage Sector: COP26 and Climate Heritage Action

December 8, 2021