Updates to the Toolkit on Sustainable Museum Practices

The May updates to the Toolkit on Sustainable Museum Practices bring together new resources, case studies, and practical reflections to support museums in advancing more environmentally and socially responsible institutional practices. The latest additions continue to expand the toolkit as a shared international resource for the museum sector.

Inspiring Projects, Platforms, and Resources

Culture Global Stocktake for Climate Action: a global, participatory process to assess how culture is already contributing to climate action ﹣and how it could do much more.In UN climate terms, a Global Stocktake is how the world collectively checks progress on the Paris Agreement. The first Global Stocktake concluded at COP28. But there’s a major gap: culture is still largely absent from climate policy frameworks, despite shaping values, behaviors, narratives, and systems of care.The Culture Global Stocktake is a decentralized process spearheaded by the Entertainment + Culture Pavilion with funding from the Youth Climate Justice Fund.

Sustainability Consultants

CASI is a consultancy supporting the visual arts sector to achieve meaningful and measurable climate action. Founded by the team behind the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC), CASI provides practical, sector-specific support including carbon footprinting, decarbonisation strategy, policy development, training and implementation. Its approach combines technical expertise with a deep understanding of how the art world operates, helping organisations move confidently from intention to action.

Recommended Readings

Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices brings together perspectives from practitioners who are rethinking the relationships between museums and galleries, artists, audiences and communities, and the specific places they inhabit. Rooted in Australian and First Nations contexts, this reader connects with innovative work across the globe through diverse case studies that demonstrate how earth ethics can be meaningfully put into practice.Edited by Madeleine Collie, Megan Cope, Charlotte Day and Melissa Ratliff. The Monash University Publishing, October, 2025.