Draft updated Policy Document on the impacts of climate change on World Heritage properties

WHC/21/44.COM/7C

This document presents a detailed overview of the process followed for the updating of the 2007 Policy Document on the impacts of climate change on World Heritage properties, as well as a draft updated Policy Document in Annex 1, as requested by the World Heritage Committee at its 40th session (Istanbul/UNESCO, 2016).

It also provides an overview of the different climate change-related activities undertaken by the World Heritage Centre in collaboration with the Advisory Bodies since the last session of the World Heritage Committee for the conservation of natural and cultural World Heritage properties.