CLIMATE ACTION PLAN
Gallery workers who signed Committing to a Climate-Conscious Future submitted ideas, hosted conversations, and came together to create a climate action plan we want to see galleries adopt and adapt within our spaces.
This plan is a living document that continues to evolve based on feedback from the community, new learning, and the experiences we have while implementing it, but the four core action areas remain constant.
4 Core Action Areas
Cut Emissions.
Galleries can calculate carbon emissions, commit to reductions, improve building energy use, reduce flights and airfreight, and contribute to protecting stored carbon.
Support Staff.
Galleries can support their staff to take climate-conscious actions by ensuring they have workplaces free of racism, harassment, and other forms of inequity and are paid transparent, fair wages.
Eliminate Waste.
Galleries can track waste, create a low-waste culture, ban single-use plastics, and set policies to eliminate waste to landfill from exhibitions and operations.
Collective Action.
Galleries can take action that is transparent, share what they learn with the gallery community, and have open dialogues with staff, artists, collectors, and vendors to help rapidly shift our sector’s paradigm.