Sustainability and climate change strategy

The British Library is committed to reducing our carbon impact and collaborating with partners to create a more sustainable future.

Our aims

Sustainable places

Continuing decarbonising our buildings and embedding best practice in environmental performance in our new spaces.

Sustainable purposes

Collaborating with people to open up the collection in new and interesting ways, to support work on solutions to the environmental challenges we face – from climate research to enabling sustainable business and enterprise, and engaging people through events, exhibitions and learning, to increasing climate literacy and visibility of climate science.

Sustainable partnerships

Embedding partnerships across the sectors we work in to support wider change, share and encourage climate action, best practice and learning.

Embedding sustainability

Embedding sustainability in how we work; our culture, policy, processes, governance, planning, collections and communications, ensuring it is seen not as an add-on, but as how we do everything we already do. This includes incorporating climate-related risks into our risk management, governance and conservation policies.