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World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate.Pdf United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate WWH_and_Tourism_23_may.inddH_and_Tourism_23_may.indd A 224/05/20164/05/2016 005:255:25 UNEP and UNESCO promote environmentally sound practices globally and in their own activities. This report is printed on paper from sustainable forests including recycled fi bre. The paper is chlorine free, and the inks vegetable-based. Our distribution policy aims to reduce UNEP’s and UNESCO’s carbon footprints. 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WWH_and_Tourism_23_may.inddH_and_Tourism_23_may.indd 3 224/05/20164/05/2016 005:255:25 WWH_and_Tourism_23_may.inddH_and_Tourism_23_may.indd 4 224/05/20164/05/2016 005:255:25 Foreword 5– Foreword rom Venice and its Lagoon to the Galápagos As this report shows, World Heritage properties Islands, some of the world’s most iconic provide opportunities for both climate mitigation FWorld Heritage sites are vulnerable to and adaptation. For example, well-preserved climate change. In this new analysis, the United forests and coastal habitats can help store Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the carbon and provide vital ecosystem services, United Nations Educational, Scientific and including natural protection against storms Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the and floods. World Heritage sites can also act Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) highlight as learning laboratories for the study and the growing climate risks to World Heritage mitigation of climate impacts, as well as being sites and recommend a clear and achievable places to test resilient management strategies. response. Globally, we need to understand more Additionally, efforts can be made to increase about how climate change will affect all World visitors’ understanding of the significance of the Heritage sites, and how it will interact with and sites they visit and how climate change affects amplify the effects of other stresses, including them, ensuring that responsible behaviours and urbanization, pollution, natural resource practices support local communities and extraction and, increasingly, tourism. safeguard heritage assets. There are more than 1 000 World Heritage The need to act is both urgent and clear. We must properties in 163 countries and a great many of reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the them are important tourist destinations. At its Paris Agreement while providing the financial best, tourism drives economic development and resources, support and expertise necessary brings needed financial and social benefits, but, to ensure the resilience of World Heritage as this report demonstrates, rapid or unplanned properties over the long term. A growing tourism developments, or excessive visitor body of knowledge, management guidelines numbers, can also have a negative effect on the and policy tools already exists that can help us properties. Climate change is likely to exacerbate achieve these goals. Success will require us to existing stresses and bring direct impacts of its expand our networks and partnerships with local own. Sea-level rise, higher temperatures, habitat communities and businesses and to encourage shifts and more frequent extreme weather the tourism industry to join us in this vital task. events such as storms, floods and droughts, all have the potential to rapidly and permanently change or degrade the very attributes that make World Heritage sites such popular tourist destinations. Ligia Noronha, Director, Division of Industry, In adopting the Paris Agreement in December Technology and Economics, UNEP 2015, 195 countries acknowledged the importance of reducing greenhouse gases to a Mechtild Rössler, Director, Division for Heritage level that will keep global average temperature and World Heritage Centre, UNESCO rise since pre-industrial times well below 2°C. Achieving this goal
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