Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea
Factors affecting the property in 2015*
Factors* affecting the property identified in previous reports
- Absence of an overall management framework for all the component parts of the serial property
- Incomplete Management Plan for the property
- Lack of details as to how the buffer zone will be protected and managed
- No system in place for defining, recording and inventorying the key components of the overall cultural landscape
- No monitoring indicators related to the attributes of Outstanding Universal Value
- Water pollution
- Absence of an overall Conservation Plan or Conservation approach for the property
International Assistance: requests for the property until 2015
Total amount approved : 0 USD
Missions to the property until 2015**
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 2015
In response to the Decision approved by the World Heritage Committee at its 36th session (Decision 36 COM 8B.42), the State Party submitted a Management Plan of the property on March 2014. The Plan provides information on the overall management framework for all the components parts of the serial property. The management Plan is accessible at: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1100/documents/
Further information still needs to be provided by the State Party on the remaining requests of the Committee related to protection, conservation and management of the property.
Summary of the interventions
Decisions adopted by the Committee in 2015
39 COM 7B.93
Omnibus Decisions
The World Heritage Committee,
- Having examined Document WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add,
- Takes note with satisfaction of the measures taken by the States Parties concerned to address its previous requests to mitigate the threats on the Outstanding Universal Value of the following World Heritage properties:
- Bam and its Cultural Landscape (Iran, Islamic Republic of),
- Rio de Janeiro, Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea (Brazil);
- Encourages the States Parties concerned to pursue their efforts to ensure the conservation of World Heritage properties;
- Reminds the States Parties concerned to inform the World Heritage Centre in due course about any major development project that may negatively impact the Outstanding Universal Value of a property, before any irreversible decisions are made, in line with Paragraph 172 of the Operational Guidelines.
Draft Decision: 39 COM 7B.93
The World Heritage Committee,
- Having examined Document WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add,
- Takes note with satisfactionof the measures taken by the States Parties concerned to address its previous requests to mitigate the threats on the Outstanding Universal Value of the following World Heritage properties :
- Bam and its Cultural Landscape (Iran, Islamic Republic of),
- Rio de Janeiro, Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea (Brazil);
- Encourages the States Parties concerned to pursue their efforts to ensure the conservation of World Heritage properties;
- Reminds the States Parties concerned to inform the World Heritage Centre in due course about any major development project that may negatively impact the Outstanding Universal Value of a property, before any irreversible decisions are made, in line with Paragraph 172 of the Operational Guidelines.
Brazil
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The threats indicated are listed in alphabetical order; their order does not constitute a classification according to the importance of their impact on the property.
Furthermore, they are presented irrespective of the type of threat faced by the property, i.e. with specific and proven imminent danger (“ascertained danger”) or with threats which could have deleterious effects on the property’s Outstanding Universal Value (“potential danger”).
** : All mission reports are not always available electronically.
