COP30 – Local Adaptiation Award Ceremony

Preserving Legacies has won the 2025 Local Adaptation Champions Award in the Science category by the Global Center on Adaptation!

This global recognition celebrates our mission to bridge science, culture, and community in protecting the world’s heritage sites from climate change — and honors the incredible custodians leading locally led, values-based, and science-driven adaptation across the globe.

We’re proud to share this honor with the inspiring winners in the other categories — Citizen Science, Health, Nature-based Solutions, and Women’s Livelihoods — whose visionary work showcases the transformative power of locally led climate action.

During the ceremony, Her Royal Highness Princess Dana Firas of Jordan, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Cultural Heritage and President of the Board of the PNT – Petra National Trust, delivered powerful remarks on the vital importance of embedding culture in climate action. She highlighted Preserving Legacies’ “Heritage Adapts 3000 by 2030” initiative — a global call to safeguard 3,000 culturally significant sites from the impacts of climate change — as a model for how heritage can drive resilience and inspire global collaboration.