Survey on Arts and Environmental Sustainability
Dear colleague
IFACCA (www.ifacca.org) and Julie’s Bicycle (www.juliesbicycle.com) have a research partnership to map environmental sustainability activities in the arts and cultural sectors, and to identify what support and resources exist or could be developed. We invite you to participate in this important international survey.
The survey is in two parts:
Part 1: Your organisation: your organisation’s engagement with environmental sustainability and details on how and why your organisation addresses this issue.
Part 2: Policy, funding and partnership for supporting environmental sustainability: the main environmental issues in your country and how these are influencing the arts sector and arts organisations, existing programmes and initiatives related to environmental sustainability, and potential steps that arts organisations would be willing or hoping to take.
For the purposes of this research, the following definitions are used:
• Sustainability usually refers to the balance between financial, social and environmental factors. For this research, we focus on environmental sustainability.
• Carbon footprinting is a measure of environmental impact from sources such as energy, water, waste and travel. The results are presented in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (that is, CO2e), which is used as a proxy to refer to greenhouse gas- related emissions from impacts such as water, waste and travel.
The deadline for responses is Friday 6 December 2013. The results will be analysed and circulated to all survey respondents for review and feedback, and a draft report will then be presented at the 6th World Summit on Arts and Culture in Santiago de Chile, in January 2014. If required, further research will be conducted in 2014 and a final report published thereafter.
Thank you for your time and effort in completing this survey and we look forward to receiving your response.
Sarah Gardner Alison Tickell
Executive Director CEO
IFACCA Julie's Bicycle