The presentation highlights current trends and strategies for cultural heritage and historic buildings in climate policies within UNFCCC and UNESCO processes from the perspective of ICOMOS contributions. The author argues for the importance of implementation pathways and mechanisms that move …
The presentation will be about the role of the EU`s policies in responding to the different threats of climate change and how they affect cultural heritage, what kind of technologies are available to tackle the challenges highlighted by examples from …
Developing a Decarbonisation Plan is a comprehensive guidance resource from Historic England that supports cultural and heritage organisations in planning the transition to net zero while safeguarding historic buildings. The resource includes practical guidance, templates, case studies, factsheets, and webinars …
Historic England Webinar Recordings provides free access to an extensive archive of recorded webinars covering a wide range of topics related to cultural heritage conservation and management. The collection includes expert presentations on building conservation, climate adaptation, energy efficiency, heritage …
The Decarbonizing the Built Environment Through Heritage Toolkit supports education, advocacy, and policymaking on heritage-informed decarbonization from the global to the local scale. Heritage-informed decarbonization is summarized through five principles applicable to global-, urban- and community-level climate change mitigation efforts. …
The video provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of Deliverable D1.1, developed by ICOMOS as part of the FuturHist project, with a specific focus on the barrier analysis in the energy retrofitting of historic buildings. It presents the key findings, …
The first episode of the FuturHist webinar series, “Future-Proofing Historic Buildings for the Clean Energy Transition: Dialogues with FuturHist & HeriTACE", co-produced with the HeriTACE project, was launched on October 15, 2025. The episode focused on the topic: "From Case …
The first episode of the FuturHist webinar series, “From Heritage to Energy Transition with FuturHist & INTBAU. Passive and Active Solutions for Historic Buildings”, co-produced with the INTBAU, was held on March 17, 2026. This session focused on the topic: …
Following the public consultations of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), ICOMOS Europe group formed an Expert Group to follow the implementation of the Directive in European countries and foster the inclusion of heritage sector and heritage aspects in …
This report summarises the work of the ICOMOS Expert Group on the Implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) in the Built Heritage Sector, established in 2023 to evaluate the impact of the EPBD recast on Europe’s historic …
Ave Paulus at the Conference “European Heritage Homes in Climate Policies and Action”
Johanna Leissner at the Conference “European Heritage Homes in Climate Policies and Action”
Summarising Barrier analysis: Identifying views on hindrances to the retrofitting of historic buildings