Environmental Issues on the Web: Building and Promoting a Thematic Archive
This presentation explores our climate change collections. After joining the IIPC Climate Change Collaborative Collection in 2020, we launched the annual Environmental Issues collection, now covering eight themes and more than 800 selections. In 2023, we published The Environment on the Web, a guided tour of archived pages in 14 themes. As the collections are available only in our library’s research rooms, we also shared the seed list and a screenshot-based version of the tour online with website owners’ permission. The project shows how thematic web archives can be developed and promoted to strengthen public understanding of climate change. Presented at the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on April 20-23, 2026 in Brusells, Belgium.