England’s Tate Museum Network Declared a Climate Emergency

Tate - a network of four museums including Tate Modern, which ranked as Britain’s top tourist attraction, with 5.9 million visitors in 2018 - announced it would join the cause and pledged to cut its carbon footprint by at least 10 percent by 2023.

The 10 percent target follows a previous 40 percent cut in energy consumption since 2007/2008, which resulted in part from updating machinery for heating and cooling, replacing old illumination with LED lighting, and monitoring the organization’s water use. New buildings such as the $340 million Switch House extension designed by Herzog & de Meuron for Tate Modern have been built with sustainability in mind, enlisting methods for natural ventilation, rainwater harvesting, and solar-power generation.

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This article shows the long way Tate Network had to take to reduce at least some footprint and what else needs to be done in order to make it 10%. In dissertation that was essential to see a bigger picture and understand the complexity and relevancy of ecological crisis and museums.