We’ve changed

After 14 years as Creative Carbon Scotland, we have changed to Culture for Climate Scotland.
Why we’ve changed
It’s the right time for us to change our name. For a long while now we’ve been doing much more than the carbon management embodied in the name we’ve had since 2011. Our broader work includes creating the Green Arts Initiative in 2013, introducing embedded artist projects in 2017, developing numerous tools and methodologies, running regular workshops and training sessions, prioritising climate adaptation work, and leading or partnering on various collaborative research projects. All this work continues apace alongside our support to the Scottish arts and culture sector including the much-expanded environmental reporting we manage on behalf of Creative Scotland, the City of Edinburgh Council and Festivals Edinburgh.
Our new name – Culture for Climate Scotland – encapsulates these diverse, multifaceted and interlinked strands of our work. It serves as a reminder of the arts and culture sector’s important contribution to the climate emergency, and it holds us firmly in Scotland, the base from where all our work begins, even as we make connections and share our expertise abroad.
What the change means for you
Perhaps the most challenging thing in the short term is getting used to calling us by a different name.
Apart from that, we hope the change will be as seamless as possible; if you happen to head to the Creative Carbon Scotland website or use an old email address, we have redirects in place to ensure you can find us in our new home.
Our new logos and website
Along with our new name, we’ve also developed a suite of dynamic logos with graphic designer, Lee Goater, and this accessible, low-carbon website with Maraid Design.
Our primary logo reflects the impetus we want to see growing in all directions as we continue to bring culture’s role in tackling the climate emergency front and centre.
An equilateral triangle is the core of Culture for Climate Scotland’s visual identity. It represents the arts and culture community, climate organisations and policymakers, all working in collaboration. We are communicating, supporting and sharing; each influencing the other to inform, adapt and create together. The triangles are dynamic, creating a feeling of momentum and by pointing in and out they embrace our outlook which is both internal- and external-looking; we’re listening and talking to our colleagues, partners and funders.
The logo’s centrepiece is a nod to the Green Arts Initiative (GAI) logo that has accompanied our support to arts and cultural organisations since 2013 and which, when taken on its own, is the GAI’s new logo.
Our new SPRINGBOARD logo appears on our promotions for the event on 5 and 6 March 2025. The redeveloped brand suite also includes logos for culture/SHIFT and environmental reporting.
Community news and event submissions
After a short pause for the changeover, we have re-opened our submissions portal and invite you to submit your relevant news, opportunities and jobs posts and your events to the site. Look for the orange buttons on the left-hand side. As previously, we will moderate all submissions prior to publication.
We continue to welcome your guest blogs. If you have an idea you’d like to discuss, please email our contacts at the end of this page.
More content coming soon
The website continues to evolve as we add content like case studies, blogs and other resources that we’ve saved from our old website.
While we’re not adding everything from the Creative Carbon Scotland website – because it would simply make the site too big and unwieldy, which is exactly what we want to avoid – there will be a good deal of archive content for you to access. If you think something is missing or not where you’d expect it to be, we may not have added it yet. Please contact us so that we can either point you in the right direction or publish it as a priority.
If you spot any errors, typos, broken links etc, please do let us know!
Emailing us
New email addresses are now in operation across the organisation.
If you have Creative Carbon Scotland email addresses saved in your email platform or elsewhere, please do update the latter half to @cultureforclimate.scot.
For any further information or suggestions, including your guest blog ideas, please contact:
- KD (Communications Manager) – [email protected]
- Dominika (Communications Officer) – [email protected]
This is the first in a series of short articles we’ll be sharing to document the process we’ve undertaken to arrive at our new name, branding and website. The second, looking in more depth at our quest to reduce our digital carbon emissions and increase our accessibility, will be published soon.