This report covers the fifth year of the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University. As our university and much of the world came out of the COVID-19 pandemic, travelling gradually resumed while zoom meetings were here to stay too. Among the highlights of the year were several global initiatives to which our Chair could contribute with a distinctive perspective on heritage futures. This included the virtual International Co-sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change, strengthening synergies between culture and climate science and organized jointly by UNESCO, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) from 6 to 10 December 2021. Another important meeting was the regional online consultation for Europe and North America ahead of the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development MONDIACULT 2022 in Mexico (about which we will report in more detail next year).The Chair’s membership of the Climate Heritage Network provides an important context for some of this work.Over the past year, I have been advising a Pilot Foresight Study of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM). As foresight and cultural heritage are now more frequently being discussed it is of great importance that we can explain clearly the significance of heritage futures – which is what we have been working with in our new animation (see p. 3).Please get in touch if you have any comments or suggestions!