From Climate Crisis to Climate Action: Exploring the Entanglement of Changing Heritage in the Anthropocene

In this article we explore how heritage can contribute to the climate discussion in ways beyond the protection and preservation of historical sites, environments, and intangible heritage. We introduce how heritage can be used as a study, or tool, to tackle global challenges and institutional barriers. Heritage studies can reveal wider values which have contributed towards the crisis we now face in the Anthropocene, but also potentially provide critical tools for action to address these challenges. We highlight the parallels between the heritage and climate narrative through their future-making approaches as well as the authorised discourse that underpins them. The article explores critical heritage studies and practices alongside the current saliency in the climate discourse with the aim to evoke climate action based on principles of care and shared agency. © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor \& Francis Group.