Resources
Resources on the Fight Against Climate Change in Performing Arts

Published: November 12, 2023
This is an evolving list of performing arts-related resources on the fight against climate change, one of the two priorities of Perform Europe.
If you have suggestions, let us know and we will be happy to include them.
- IETM: Climate Justice: Through the Creative Lens of the Performing Arts
- IETM: Climate Action and the Performing Arts
- EDN: Environmental Sustainability in Contemporary Dance: Emerging Issues, Practices and Recommendations
- Pearle* and EFA: The Ultimate Cookbook for Cultural Managers – The EU Green Deal and Live Performance Organisations
- Circostrada: Shaking the Current: Guides on Eco-Responsibility and Ethics
- Theatre Green Book – Guides
- Creative Carbon Scotland – Resources
- Greening of the Creative Europe Programme – Good Environmental Practices Guide
- Julie’s Bicycle – Creative Climate Action – Resources
- IETM: Sensing Earth Workshop Report
- The Festival Academy & EFA: Toolkit on Gathering in the face of disaster
- Creative Carbon Scotland: Workshop on “Green Touring – What does it mean to tour sustainably?”
- Creative Carbon Scotland: Workshop for Cultural Organisations about Climate Justice and Aviation
- Creative Carbon Scotland: Carbon Budgeting Tool
- IETM: Lost in Transition – Report from the IETM Focus Luxembourg Meeting 2023
Further resources
- Perform Europe Insights: Sustainability through innovation
- Research Results of Perform Europe’s First Edition
- Rewiring the network: Resetting the agenda for IETM (2021)
- On the Move: Report on Cultural Mobility Flows – European Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories
- IETM Publication – Arts in Rural Areas
- EUNIC: Not a toolkit! Fair collaboration in cultural relations: a reflAction
- The Handbook of Cultural Work, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, ed. by Christos Carras (2024)
- IETM: Supporting Relevance: Ideas and strategies for inclusive, fair and flexible arts funding
- EFFEA Duty of Care Protocol Generation #1
- IETM Publication: Fair Pay in the Arts: The talk of the town or the elephant in the room?
- IETM Webinar: ‘Which side are you on?’ Ideas for Reaching Fair Working Conditions in the Arts
- IETM Report: How do we make it work? A panel on working conditions and the status of the artist
- Waag – Toolkit for making change in the cultural field
- The Festival Academy & EFA: Toolkit on Festivals, Peacebuilding, and Conflict Transformation
- The Festival Academy & EFA: Toolkit on Sustainable Business Practices
- Pearle* and EFA: Ultimate Cookbook for Cultural Managers: Third Country National Artists working in the EU