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Celebrating 10 years of the World Heritage Marine Programme Read this publication Basic Texts of the 1972 World Heritage Convention, Edition July 2025 Read this publication Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0 Read this publication Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessments in a World Heritage Context Read this publication Managing World Heritage Read this publication World Heritage and Renewable Energy Read this publication World Heritage Map Read this publication More publications Featured Activities Developing the World Heritage Strategy for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Recognizing the urgent challenges posed by climate change and the need to advance sustainable development in Small ... Dive into Heritage Dive into Heritage is creating an innovative online platform that leverages digital technologies to safeguard and ... Safeguarding World Heritage in Africa Africa has an incredible natural and cultural heritage. Yet, it also faces numerous challenges that hinder ... UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize For The Safeguarding And Management of Cultural ... The UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes ... 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 The Urban Heritage Atlas is an atlas and an archive that documents and explains, visually, narratively and with ... World Heritage Cities Programme The World Heritage Cities Programme is one of six thematic programmes formally approved and monitored by the World ... World Heritage Volunteers 2025 Campaign 89 action camp projects will be implemented from April to December 2025 at 82 World Heritage properties and sites ... Capacity Building Understanding, managing and conserving World Heritage properties requires up-to-date knowledge and well-honed ... 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 51 flagship marine protected areas of Outstanding Universal Value: Beacons of Hope In a Changing Ocean Corporate sector and the World Heritage ‘no-go’ commitment Across the extractives, finance, insurance and hydropower sectors, among others, major public and private companies ... UNESCO Sites Navigator Funded by the Government of Flanders (Belgium) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, an online geographic information ... 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) Covering an area estimated at 1.62 million km2, the forests of Central Africa are home to vital biodiversity for ... 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 World Heritage properties are affected by the impacts of climate change at present and in the future. Their ... Cultural Landscapes There exist a great variety of Landscapes that are representative of the different regions of the world. Combined ... 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 became an increasingly important issue after the destruction of ... 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 Many cultural and natural World Heritage sites are home to indigenous peoples. As the UNESCO policy on engaging ... 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 The UNESCO World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Programme represents a new approach based on dialogue and ... 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) Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are islands of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. ... 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 HeritageVolunteers Initiative Within the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage Education Programme, the ... more activities 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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