EA Sustain: Decarbonising the Art World

How do you reduce emissions in a sector built on travel, shipping, and energy-intensive buildings — without losing the exchange and experimentation that make culture meaningful?

Heath Lowndes, Director of Gallery Climate Coalition, discusses how the visual arts sector can meaningfully decarbonise through shared tools, standards, and collective responsibility. GCC works internationally with galleries, institutions, artists, and fairs to help the sector reduce its carbon footprint in line with the Paris Agreement.

Artist and activist Imani Jacqueline Brown brings the conversation to the level of individual practice, connecting climate change to longer histories of extractivism, colonialism, and environmental injustice. Together, they explore how cultural climate action can be practical, systemic — and still deeply human.