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17 June 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the fragility of our cities sharply into focus. In light of the new challenges that the crisis has presented to cities worldwide, UNESCO introduces its World Heritage City Webinar on ‘Re-thinking Urban Heritage for Resilience and Recovery.’ During the Webinar, to be held online on 17 June 2020 from 1pm to 3:30pm Paris time (UTC+2), an international panel of ...
17 June 2020
Building resilience at the local level is an essential component of the long-term global response to climate change to protect people, livelihoods and ecosystems. Resilience-based management is a management approach that uses knowledge of current and future drivers influencing ecosystem function to prioritize, implement, and adapt management actions that sustain ecosystems and human ...
17-26 June 2020
From 17 to 26 June 2020, UNESCO successfully organised its first World Heritage City Lab, an online innovation laboratory for analysis, assessment, learning, and development of strategies for the protection and management of World Heritage properties in the urban context. Carried out in collaboration with the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Convention— the International Council on ...
5 June 2020
On 5 June 2020, UNESCO organised an online meeting with the Japanese authorities and an international expert to discuss the response following the devastating fire of October 2019 at the Shuri-jô site, part of the World Heritage site “Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu” The large fire, which broke out on 31 October 2019, had a significant impact on the Shuri-jô site ...
2-11 June 2020
UNESCO is pleased to introduce its first online international Expert Workshop on the Culture|2030 Indicators. The Culture|2030 Indicators were developed in collaboration with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, as well as a number international organizations and experts. As a framework of thematic indicators, the Culture|2030 Indicators is intended to support and complement the global ...