Environment & Culture Partners: Carbon Inventory Project
Carbon Day 2023 will be the first reporting milestone in the work to build sector-wide capacity and commitment to calculating and reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from energy use. This effort is part of Culture Over Carbon, an IMLS National Leadership grant studying energy use in museums, zoos, gardens, aquariums and historic sites.
Environment and Culture Partners (ECP), New Buildings Institute (NBI) and New England Museum Association (NEMA) are teaming up to help museum staff comfortably develop and submit annual energy use carbon calculations, then contribute it (anonymously) to the sector’s total footprint for 2022. They are doing this so that each participating institution, and the entire sector, can take responsibility for its carbon impacts, and demonstrate its capacity for high-impact climate action.
Forms are due by 11:59pm (ET) on June 1, 2023. The US cultural sector carbon footprint will be announced on Carbon Day, June 16, 2023.