Just in time for spring, the season of rebirth and revitalisation, Creative Carbon Scotland is relaunching the Green Arts Initiative (GAI).

The programme, which was established almost 10 years ago in 2013, supports Scottish arts and cultural organisations to reduce their impact on the environment and be at the forefront of climate action.  

Green Arts Officer, Romane Boyer, explains: “The GAI has grown to include 350 cultural organisation members that share relevant knowledge, ideas and experiences to enhance the sustainability competencies of the Scottish cultural sector. For several reasons, including how the power of art to contribute to climate action was showcased at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, aka COP26, in Glasgow, we realised the timing was right to relaunch the GAI.”  

The relaunch will entail offering GAI members more training, tools and other resourcesto help them manage their carbon footprint, be sustainable, and adapt to climate change. It will also revitalise the strength and interactions of the GAI community.  

To inform GAI members and others interested in the power of art and culture to advance climate action about the relaunch, CCS has created a short explanatory video that summarises the plans.

We’ve also published a complementary survey because we know GAI members’ suggestions on how the initiative can best support them and their organisations are key. Boyer noted that while the video and survey are for GAI members primarily, she hopes other organisations and individual artists and cultural practitioners will have a look and either consider becoming GAI members, in the case of organisations, or will delve into the resources Creative Carbon Scotland offers individuals. 

We invite all GAI member organisations (and those about to join) to complete the survey by Friday, 22nd April 2022.

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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