IETM Policy Guide: Advancing Green Cultural Policies in an Era of Greenlash
by Elena Polivtseva
This policy guide aims to encourage, inspire, and support cultural policymakers in crafting meaningful, visionary and time-sensitive greening strategies at a moment marked, on the one hand, by rollbacks of environmental policies, and on the other, by a growing sense of urgency. This guide builds upon the knowledge IETM has generated in the past years — through research, training, dialogues, panels and speeches, through ongoing members’ conversations, and Perform Europe, which IETM has led, in collaboration with other performing arts networks. While the paper addresses cultural policy in general, the key focus is placed on the needs, aspirations and specificities of the performing arts sector. With a primary focus on Europe, the guide is supported by case studies embedded in thematic boxes. These serve merely as examples characterising the current policy landscape rather than role-model practices or one- size-fit-all solutions.