Progress report for
Museum Partnerships for future earth
Achievement at a glance
Since the last report, Museum Partnerships for Future Earth has focussed on impactful activities enabling museums and their partners to understand, plan and implement activities that support the SDGs. This has involved activity at political levels, for example participating in UNFCCC activities linked to the next programme for the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement (museums were included in the synthesis of submissions for the Doha Work Programme), at museum sector levels, by participating as a member of the International Council of Museums Sustainability Working Group (ICOM adopted the SDGs in 2019), by supporting museum networks in various countries to adopt the SDGs, and by working on Reimagining Museums for Climate Action, as well as supporting and speaking at conferences worldwide.Challenges faced in implementation
The main challenge is time.Next Steps
Next steps are to extend the period of this partnership from 2020 till 2022. The partnership will continue to work to enhance members' contributions to sustainable development, to learn from one another, and to support museums and their partners to take up the SDGs. Major projects include Reimagining Museums for Climate Action, which 3 partners are involved in in various ways, ICCROM Our Collections Matter project which should produce publicly available deliverables in 2021, writing projects, and a guide on Museums and Human Rights, human rights as a basis for public service, due out in December 2020 on International Human Rights DayBeneficiaries
Museum sector, International Council of Museums