On April 18, 2022, the China Association for the Protection of Monuments and Sites will hold this year's International Day of Monuments and Sites (ICET) China-themed event – the "Heritage and Climate" Symposium.
With the increasing severity of the climate change situation, its impact on cultural and natural heritage has become increasingly prominent, and it has become one of the hot topics of concern in the international heritage community. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) has identified the theme of this year's April 18 International Day of Monuments and Sites as "Heritage and Climate", with a view to further building sustainable heritage action goals and systems for addressing climate change, and strengthening exchanges between the heritage community and climate change-related professional fields.
The seminar will be held online + offline, inviting experts in the fields of cultural heritage, natural heritage, ecological environment, meteorological sciences and agricultural geography, as well as heritage site managers affected by climate change. The conference will focus on four topics: "International Trends of Climate Change and Countermeasures for Domestic Heritage Protection", "Management Strategies for Protecting and Responding to Climate Change in Heritage Sites", "Application of New Scientific and Technological Means in the Field of Heritage Protection", and "Technologies for the Protection and Restoration of Cultural Relics under Specific Climatic Conditions".
Representatives of cultural relics departments of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, state forestry and grassland administration, China Association for the Protection of Monuments and Sites, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Palace Museum, Dunhuang Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, Tsinghua University, Archaeological Research Center of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Beijing, Henan, Shanxi, Zhejiang and other relevant provinces (cities, districts), as well as leaders, experts and young scholars of various professional committees and group member units of the association will jointly witness the 2022 International Day of Monuments and Sites in China.
We hope that this event will attract the attention of experts and scholars in the fields of heritage and meteorology in China to the theme of "Heritage and Climate", enhance the discussion of the heritage sites on topics such as addressing climate change and its secondary disasters, and help the preventive protection of heritage, the construction of disaster prevention and mitigation systems and sustainable development.
The event agenda and conference links will be released soon, so stay tuned.
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Author | China Heritage Sites Conservation Association
Editor| Yang Yichen
Review | Wang Chao
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