During the debate on culture, heritage and the crisis on Monday 29 September at Mondialcult - UNESCO’s world conference (see EUROPE B13719A22) on cultural policies and sustainable development - the European Commissioner for Culture, Glenn Micallef, pointed out that climate change and other man-made threats were making heritage “increasingly fragile”.
He argued that culture could be seen “as a tool for resilience”, using examples from the European Commission’s recent...