Climate Change

Climate change is increasingly affecting archival work.

These resources include guides on making your archives more environmentally sustainable, as well as information on how to be more resilient to climate change.

The Environmental Sustainability Guide is available to help you embed environmental sustainability considerations into digital preservation decision-making when using the Levels to measure and guide your digital preservation strategy.

UK Heritage Fund’s Environmental Sustainability Good Practice Guidance

This guide helps in the planning of heritage projects with sustainability in mind.

EU Sustainable Archives and Greener Approaches (SAGA)

SAGA is an innovative European transnational project built on the identified common need of protecting national archives from natural and man-made disasters, climate change and strategies for sustainability within the archival sector.

The project includes assessment tools for archives to measure disaster preparedness as well as sustainability.

Society of American Archivist’s Climate Change Resources

Global warming presents an increasingly severe threat to archives, libraries, and museums. This evolving list is designed to help archivists and related professionals understand how climate change events may affect archives, libraries, and museums. 

Climate Action for Museums Toolkit

The Alberta Museum’s Association developed a toolkit to assist with making our facilities and work have less impact on the environment.