support the culture global stocktake
there’s a culture gap in climate policy.
The Culture Global Stocktake for Climate Action (CGST) is a global, participatory process assessing how culture already contributes to climate action, where significant gaps remain, and what governments and other actors can do to better integrate cultural dimensions across climate policy and implementation.
Inspired by the structure of the UNFCCC Global Stocktake, the CGST addresses mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology, capacity-building, loss and damage, response measures and international cooperation. It is both a policy framework and an ongoing process: developed through public consultations and written contributions, tested through advocacy and implementation, and periodically updated as the international climate policy landscape evolves.
The current process is building toward the second Global Stocktake (GST2), which concludes at COP33 in 2028, with COP31 in Antalya representing the next major opportunity to strengthen the recognition of culture across UNFCCC processes and preparations for GST2.
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⏰ Timeline and key policy milestones
✅ 1) initial consultation phase + draft 1.0
First public consultations took place in February followed by self-organized consultations globally. Draft 1.0 was released at the end of March.
⏳3) road to antalya, cop31
The final text of the First Culture Global Stocktake will be formally launched at in Turkey alongside UNFCCC, UNESCO and supporting Parties.
✅ 2) refining draft 2.0 | sb64
We accepted inputs to strengthen Draft 2.0 which was presented at the Bonn UNFCCC headquarters during SB64.
4) culture at gst-2
After being formally recognized, the CGST will be used as a tool to influence negotiations around the Second Global Stocktake and other negotiation tracks.
Marrakech partnership accelerator
The Marrakech Partnership Accelerator gathered 50+ cultural practitioners, Indigenous leaders, creatives, researchers, and policymakers to co-create Draft 1.0 of the first-ever Culture Global Stocktake for Climate Action. A policy tool designed to do one thing: embed culture into climate decision-making.
A huge thank you to the Youth Climate Justice Fund for their catalyzing support of the accelerator and to the British Council, British Council Maroc, and the Goethe Institute for supporting the cultural programming.
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The Culture Global Stocktake has been developed through rounds of virtual consultations with hundreds of practitioners worldwide, written inputs, and the convening of 50+ delegates at the Marrakech Partnership Accelerator. For further information, visit our Methodology page.