Research
A collection of research reports and case studies on current impacts, drivers and actions alongside transitional, adaptive and transformational theories and practices.
Creative Climate Reports
Creative Climate Feb- May 2026 Roundtables report CLIMATE ACTION in the arts and culture sector
Risk Management of Climate Change Impacts for Australia's Cultural Organisations
Festivals
Climate Resilience and Australian Festivals
by Dr Todd Denham, A/Prof Catherine Strong, Dr Ben Green (RMIT University) and Prof Lauren Rickards (La Trobe University), Commissioned by Creative Australia September 2025
Visual Arts
Gallery Climate Coalition : 2025 Stocktake Report
Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) is an international community of arts organisations working to reduce our sector’s environmental impacts.
Performing Arts
by the Performance+Ecology Research Lab (P+ERL) & Creative Arts Research Institute (CARI), Griffith University, Australia October 2025
Governance
Nature in the Board Room Regenerative practitioner, author and governance leader Dr Dominique Hes shares her experience of being the representative of Nature on the Regen Melbourne board.
AELA Nature on the Board – Watch back on a conversation between the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) and Lawyers for Nature (UK) on giving nature a place on your Board.
Creative Australia’s Governance Conversations: where Lena Nahlous (Diversity Arts Australia), Pippa Bailey and James Arvanitakis explore what regenerative, justice-focused leadership can look like in the cultural sector.
Centre for Public Impact – Reimagining Governance: A podcast shining a light on government changemakers around the world.
Dr Dominique Hess - Director and Voice of Nature on the Regen Melbourne Board shares a collection of case studies of organisations putting Nature into the governance.
International
Policy Frameworks and Advocacy
Creative Responses to sustainability - Aotearoa Green Guide July 2026
Arts and Culture The missing SDG
UNESCO global report on cultural policies, Culture: the Missing SDG; executive summary 2025
STAGES - Sustainable Theatre Alliance in the EU for a Green Shift in theatre
Green Guide for the Philippines an overview of sustainability and the arts in the Philippines.
Mapping Trends in Best Practice: Climate Action and Sustainability in the Arts UK British Council 2023
2015 Wellbeing of Futures Generations Act, Cymru - world first legislation
Reports and evaluations
State climate policies
Local Government review
Community approaches
Education
Tertiary Sector
ACTS- supporting campuses to become sustainable - Climate Change Scenarios Report
Early Childhood
800,000 Days of Learning at Stake - Building climate-resilient early childhood education across Australia - Polyglot is featured as a case study on pages 48 - 50
Case Studies
Festivals
Case study predicting event power usage to support a battery powered stage at The Unconformity 2025.
Audience Research
CultureHive: Audience Research – UK research into audience expectations around climate action in the arts
Climate and Health
Inner development goals - as a prerequisite of outer change
Caring for emotions in Climate Change Education Climate Psychology Alliance UK
World Health Organisation 2026 report on the role of arts and culture in addressing the health impacts of climate change.
Climate and Adaptation
The Australian Adaptation Database is a living stocktake of 600 adaptation projects in Australia.
The Adaptation Game -a tool that helps communities and organisations become more climate resilient.
AI, culture and climate
Systems Change Frameworks
Young persons guide to systems change 2025 Club of Rome an international think tank founded in 1968 that brings together scientists, economists, and business leaders to address complex global and environmental challenges using systems thinking.
Think pieces
City Leaders for Sustainable Futures published July 2026 is a collection of interviews by Cathy Oke and Jorn Verbeeck with urban leaders around the world.
Kumi Naidoo ( Global Artivism) Culture and Climate Justice June 2026 co comission Creative Climate and Arts Hub
Claire G. Coleman (Centre for Reworlding) Listen to Indigenous Voices on Country May 2026 co comission Creative Climate and Arts Hub
Mt Resilience is the interactive story of a town designed to tackle climate change, produced by the ABC and inspired by climate and disaster preparedness concepts.
Jen Rae’s (from the Centre for Reworlding) keynote at United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction
Bush Heritage Australia’s Big Sky Country podcast pairs First Nations knowledge with science to shine a light on practical solutions to the climate crisis. Hosted by Kaurareg Nations (Zendah Kes/Torres Strait) woman Tiahni Adamson. First up Bob Brown.
Common Ground’s Dreamy story resource
The Climate Reader: Propositions, poetics, operations assembles contributions published by L’Internationale Online in the context of the Climate Forum (I–IV), a series of seminars hosted by HDK-Valand (2023-2025) as part of the four-year project ‘Museum of the Commons’. Bringing together over twenty artists, curators, academics and activists, the series and resulting publication were conceived as an iterative space of dialogue and exchange across discursive, artistic, political and operational registers in response to climate breakdown and ecological degradation.
Biomimicry Institute Podcasts Janine Benyus and Christiana Figueres in conversation about biomimicry, belonging, and what it actually means to live in relationship with the rest of the natural world
Doing it with Others How can art institutions move beyond theory to take real action in the face of the climate crisis? Published by L’Internationale Online 2026
