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An international non-governmental organization that works for the conservation and protection of cultural heritage around the world.

Climate change impact on archaeological sites in Wales

Dangers from sea-level rise

Climate change threats to Cherished Historic Sites

Percentage of sites where the conservation outlook is of significant or critical concern as of November 2017.

Cultural sites in peril

Indigenous legal scholar Aimée Craft discusses the effects of climate change on remote northern communities in Manitoba not only in terms of impacts on health, economics, and social stability, but also in terms of the threats to language, culture and identity that may be accelerating as a result of the new vulnerabilities caused by environmental impacts. Cultural losses occurring in part due to increased migration from traditional smaller communities to urban centers in Southern Canada represent one of many threats to indigenous heritage among Canada’s First Nations people.

Rising sea levels, storminess, and coastal erosion, among other effects of climate change, pose significant threats to heritage and the environmental archive, resulting in potential losses of knowledge that archaeologist Thomas McGovern compares to the burning of the Great Library of Alexandria.