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he Green Museums Accord encourages a dialogue with museum staff about the environmental impact and sustainable alternatives on every major project.

Reduce the carbon/greenhouse gas footprint of your museum by using less electricity more efficiently. Last but not least, share information and resources with others in the exhibition community so that they can learn from your experiences.

Artists are waking up to climate change. But what good can they do – and how green is their work?

Contemporary art is an expensive, global business. Artists, curators and the works all end up flying, while galleries themselves require expensive climactic conditions. Indeed, curators in London and Copenhagen admit they have no idea of the carbon cost of their exhibitions.

There are a number of easy-to-implement ideas that can help get staff on board. Why not create a sustainability manager? Give somebody the responsibility to help champion the greening of your organisation and spread the message to staff throughout the museum.

You can incentivize staff by generating light-hearted competition.

incentives to see who is the most green.

simple suggestion on how to save energy.

Greener Museums 2010 Sustainability Leadership Program.

focused on electricity.

gallery lights are turned off when no one is in the gallery.

air conditioning units, which are used to heat and cool.

main priority is to reduce electricity consumption as this is the main contributor to their carbon footprint.