When Culture Becomes Climate Action: A New Policy Brief on Arts, Health, and the Climate Crisis

Speakers include:

Mark Ruffalo, actor and co-founder of the Solutions Project; Andy Haines, Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Alice Sharp, Artistic Director of Invisible Dust; and Nisha Sajnani, Professor of Drama Therapy and Founding Co-Director of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab at NYU, alongside representatives from WHO, Creative Ireland, and ministries of health across Europe.

The climate crisis is not only environmental or technical, it is also rather cultural. It lives in how we imagine the future, how we relate to one another, and how we make meaning from the world around us.

This is something we at Museum for the United Nations – UN Live care deeply about, and it is why we are excited to have contributed to a new policy brief from the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, exploring how the arts can help address the health impacts of climate change.

The arts have a unique capacity to shift how we feel, connect, and act. Recognising this as part of a public health response opens up new ways of understanding how change becomes personal, embodied, and relevant as something people can feel and live, more than just a policy paper.

After two years of collaboration, we are glad to see this work take shape in a form that can inform real policy conversations.

Join the launch

The policy brief will be presented at an online event on 29 April 2026, bringing together experts at the intersection of climate, culture, and wellbeing.

📅 29 April 2026

🕒 08:30–10:00 EDT | 13:30–15:00 BST | 14:30–16:00 CEST

💻 Online

🔗 Register here:https://lnkd.in/ek2cmqse