UN body moves to bring arts & entertainment sectors on common platform for reducing carbon emissions – Times of India
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NEW DELHI: The UN body on climate change on Friday announced a move to unite the arts and entertainment sectors across the globe for transformative climate action for reducing their carbon footprints in sync with the Paris Agreement‘s goal.
The move under the global Art Charter for Climate Action (ACCA) aims to bring all related sectors including film & television, gaming, music, and visual arts on a common platform for jointly reducing GHG emissions by at least 50% by 2030, and reaching net zero by 2050.
“In order to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, it is essential that all sectors take transformative climate action now,” said UN Climate Change executive secretary Simon Stiell.
He said, “In addition to reducing its global emissions, arts and culture play a critical role in inspiring people to imagine and realise a low carbon, just and climate-resilient future.”
The Paris Agreement’s main aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900) and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The Art Charter will become the visual arts pillar of UN Climate Change’s Entertainment & Culture for Climate Action (ECCA) alliance, which aims at accelerating the transition of arts, film, music, and other relevant sectors to reduce GHG emissions and to inspire climate action beyond the sector through artistic expression and innovation.
Besides decarbonisation, the sectors will also jointly work on conservation efforts by protecting natural ecosystems and respecting the communities who steward them as these ecosystems – and the biodiversity they contain – are natural carbon sinks.
“ACCA is an initiative that, for the first time ever, brings together the entire visual art sector’s value chain around the common goal of steering the global industry to reduce GHG emissions and transition to net zero,” said Luise Faurschou, director of the non-profit ART 2030 and steering committee member of the Art Charter.
The move under the global Art Charter for Climate Action (ACCA) aims to bring all related sectors including film & television, gaming, music, and visual arts on a common platform for jointly reducing GHG emissions by at least 50% by 2030, and reaching net zero by 2050.
“In order to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, it is essential that all sectors take transformative climate action now,” said UN Climate Change executive secretary Simon Stiell.
He said, “In addition to reducing its global emissions, arts and culture play a critical role in inspiring people to imagine and realise a low carbon, just and climate-resilient future.”
The Paris Agreement’s main aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900) and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The Art Charter will become the visual arts pillar of UN Climate Change’s Entertainment & Culture for Climate Action (ECCA) alliance, which aims at accelerating the transition of arts, film, music, and other relevant sectors to reduce GHG emissions and to inspire climate action beyond the sector through artistic expression and innovation.
Besides decarbonisation, the sectors will also jointly work on conservation efforts by protecting natural ecosystems and respecting the communities who steward them as these ecosystems – and the biodiversity they contain – are natural carbon sinks.
“ACCA is an initiative that, for the first time ever, brings together the entire visual art sector’s value chain around the common goal of steering the global industry to reduce GHG emissions and transition to net zero,” said Luise Faurschou, director of the non-profit ART 2030 and steering committee member of the Art Charter.
