Voices of Culture (VoC) – the structured dialogue between the European Commission and the cultural sector – has published a Brainstorming Report on the Culture and Creative Sectors and Industries, the green transition and the energy crisis.

Culture and creativity offer a source of innovation for climate change mitigation, hold the key to reshaping behaviours and living practices meaningfully and at scale, and are a source of principles and behaviours for societal resilience in the face of climate change effects. The Report reveals a wealth of European initiatives (among which the recently published study Greening the Creative Europe programme and its Good Environmental Practices Guide) to support the greening of the cultural and creative sectors and industries and presents recommendations to build on and extend the effectiveness of those initiatives.

The VoC Report is aimed at both cultural practitioners on local, national and EU levels, and policy makers, providing them with useful tools and recommendations for their work. It will also inform the discussions of the upcoming Open Method of Coordination Group on the same topic – which is supposed to start its work in 2024, in line with the EU Work Plan for Culture 2023-2026. Voices of Culture is funded by the European Commission and implemented by Goethe-Institut.