What is this?

Action for Climate Empowerment is the informal name given to the public-facing and all-of-society aspects of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Paris Agreement.

A new Glasgow Work Programme on Action for Climate Empowerment was adopted at COP26 in Glasgow, UK, in November 2021, to run until 2031. This short guide aims to help cultural and educational institutions, community organizations and others to understand how they can contribute to and support the new Glasgow Work Programme on Action for Climate Empowerment, through public education, training, public awareness, public access to information, public participation, partnerships and co-operation to address climate change and cope with its impacts.

This guide can be used with ‘Mobilising Museums for Climate Action: tools, frameworks and opportunities to accelerate climate action in and with museums’, which explores the essentials of climate action in more detail. See especially sections I (just transition), L and M (Education for Sustainable Development and other pedagogies) of ‘Mobilising Museums for Climate Action’.

Further reading and sources of information can be found at the end of this guide.

mobilising museums for climate action

Tools, frameworks and opportunities to accelerate climate action in and with museums

Henry McGhie

SECTION A