A selection of useful resources for exploring the role of the archive sector in responding to the climate and ecological emergency, both in terms of mitigation and resilience. Very few are archive specific, as yet, but the list includes resources which can most readily be applied to the sector.

Creating a bespoke Sustainability Policy for London Metropolitan Archives.

Two projects from The Box, Plymouth

Two research projects by CLANDAGE (Building Climate Resilience through Communities, Landscapes and Cultural Heritage)

Mount Oswald Manor House, a Grade II listed building, has been converted into The Story, a facility designed to showcase the history of the county and its people. In the construction of the service, The Story implemented low carbon measures on the one hand, and a passive ethos to the construction of the archive storage repositories on the other.

York is a city used to dealing with floods, but climate change has increased the severity of these events.

In 2015, Conwy Archive Service (CAS) began the process of securing funding for a new archive building. At the time, the service was housed in a draughty Victorian school building in Llandudno with a leaking roof, which posed a threat to the archive collections and offered no space for new additions. A move had become critical

Several passive storage improvements have been made to the strongroom at Bangor University Archives, which have resulted in a safer and more stable environment.