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Dec 2016

The Future of the World Heritage Convention for Marine Conservation. Celebrating 10 years of the World Heritage Marine Programme

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The Future of the World Heritage Convention for Marine Conservation. Celebrating 10 years of the World Heritage Marine Programme

Basic Texts of the 1972 World Heritage Convention, Edition December 2023

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Basic Texts of the 1972 World Heritage Convention, Edition December 2023

Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessments in a World Heritage Context

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Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessments in a World Heritage Context

Managing Natural World Heritage

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Managing Natural World Heritage

World Heritage Map

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World Heritage and Biodiversity
World Heritage and Biodiversity

Biological diversity underpins ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services essential for human ...

UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas: Cultural mapping for historic cities and settlements
UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas: Cultural mapping for historic cities and settlements

The Urban Heritage Atlas is an atlas and an archive that documents and explains, visually, narratively and with ...

World Heritage Cities Programme
World Heritage Cities Programme

The World Heritage Cities Programme is one of six thematic programmes formally approved and monitored by the World ...

Capacity Building
Capacity Building

Understanding, managing and conserving World Heritage properties requires up-to-date knowledge and well-honed ...

Culture|2030 Indicators
Culture|2030 Indicators

The UNESCO Thematic Indicators for Culture in the 2030 Agenda (Culture|2030 Indicators) is a framework of thematic ...

World Heritage Marine Programme
World Heritage Marine Programme

50 flagship marine protected areas of Outstanding Universal Value: Beacons of Hope In a Changing Ocean

Corporate sector and the World Heritage ‘no-go’ commitment
Corporate sector and the World Heritage ‘no-go’ commitment

Across the extractives, finance, insurance and hydropower sectors, among others, major public and private companies ...

Dive into Heritage
Dive into Heritage

Dive into Heritage is creating an innovative online platform that leverages digital technologies to safeguard and ...

World Heritage Online Map Platform
World Heritage Online Map Platform

Funded by the Flanders UNESCO Trustfund (FUT), an online geographic information system for World Heritage is being ...

Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape
Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape

The Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL Recommendation) is an additional tool to integrate policies ...

Central Africa World Heritage Forest Initiative (CAWHFI)
Central Africa World Heritage Forest Initiative (CAWHFI)

Covering an area estimated at 1.62 million km2, the forests of Central Africa are home to vital biodiversity for ...

50 Minds for the Next 50. Dialogue Series
50 Minds for the Next 50. Dialogue Series

UNESCO launches “50 Minds for The Next 50” to convene fifty leading, innovative, bold, respected thinkers of our ...

Category 2 Centres
Category 2 Centres

In recent years, the framework for training and research in the field of World Heritage has changed significantly. ...

Climate Change and World Heritage
Climate Change and World Heritage

World Heritage properties are affected by the impacts of climate change at present and in the future. Their ...

Cultural Landscapes
Cultural Landscapes

There exist a great variety of Landscapes that are representative of the different regions of the world. Combined ...

Natural World Heritage
Natural World Heritage

The World Heritage Convention is one of the most successful international instruments to protect the most ...

Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Recovery
Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Recovery

Post-conflict and post-disaster reconstruction became an increasingly important issue after the destruction of ...

Reducing Disasters Risks at World Heritage Properties
Reducing Disasters Risks at World Heritage Properties

World Heritage properties and heritage sites in general are exposed to the impacts of natural and man-triggered ...

World Heritage and Indigenous Peoples
World Heritage and Indigenous Peoples

Many cultural and natural World Heritage sites are home to indigenous peoples. As the UNESCO policy on engaging ...

World Heritage and Sustainable Development
World Heritage and Sustainable Development

Heritage was long absent from the mainstream sustainable development debate despite its crucial importance to ...

World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Programme
World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Programme

The UNESCO World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Programme represents a new approach based on dialogue and ...

World Heritage Education Programme
World Heritage Education Programme

The UNESCO World Heritage Education Programme, initiated as a UNESCO special project in 1994, gives young people a ...

World Heritage Programme for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
World Heritage Programme for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are islands of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. ...

World Heritage Site Managers' Forum
World Heritage Site Managers' Forum

In recent years, it has become an established practice that a forum is organised in conjunction with each World ...

World Heritage Volunteers Initiative
World Heritage Volunteers Initiative

World HeritageVolunteers Initiative Within the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage Education Programme, the ...

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UNESCO World Heritage Convention Emblem
The Emblem

The World Heritage emblem represents the interdependence of the world’s natural and cultural diversity. It is used to identify properties protected by the World Heritage Convention and inscribed on the official World Heritage List, and represents the universal values for which the Convention stands.

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