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

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

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. 

Culture for Climate Survey Report: The Australian performing arts sector’s response to the climate crisis

by the Performance+Ecology Research Lab (P+ERL) & Creative Arts Research Institute (CARI), Griffith University, Australia October 2025

Governance

• 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.

International Policy Frameworks and Advocacy

• Climate Change and Culture UCL Marianna Muzzucato June 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

• culture360.ASEF.org

• 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

• World Cities of Culture Forum report 2026

State-wide approaches

• Adapt NSW Forum 2025

Tertiary Sector

• ACTS- supporting campuses to become sustainable - Climate Change Scenarios Report

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.

• Australian Climate Adaptation Map

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