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UNESCO World Heritage Sites are landmarks or areas selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for having cultural, historical, scientific, or other forms of significance. These sites are legally protected by international treaties, and they are recognized as being of outstanding value to humanity. There are over 1,100 World Heritage Sites across the world, categorized into three main types: 1. Cultural Heritage Sites: These include monuments, buildings, or locations that represent human creativity and civilization. Examples include the Pyramids of Giza (Egypt), the Great Wall of China, and the historic city of Venice (Italy). 2. Natural Heritage Sites: These are sites of outstanding natural beauty or biodiversity. Examples include Yellowstone National Park (USA), the Great Barrier Reef (Australia), and Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania). 3. Mixed Heritage Sites: These sites hold both cultural and natural significance, such as Machu Picchu (Peru) and Mount Athos (Greece). Sites are nominated by countries and then evaluated by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) before being designated as a World Heritage Site. The list is continually updated to protect and preserve the world's most valuable places.

The Flow Country has just achieved inscription status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site – the first peatland WHS anywhere. It is Scotland’s first WHS inscribed for purely natural criteria, and the first in mainland UK for the global importance of its natural ecosystems! This area of Caithness and Sutherland in northern Scotland, covering nearly 2,000 sq km, is one of the world's most extensive and intact blanket bog systems. Recognised for its outstanding cultural, historical, and scientific significance, the designation by UNESCO places it among 121 landscapes globally. The Flow Country spans 4,000 sq km, including pools, lochs, hills, and mountains, supporting diverse species such as sphagnum mosses, rare birds, and carnivorous plants. Formed over millennia, the peat bogs are crucial for carbon storage, containing up to 400 million tonnes of carbon. https://lnkd.in/e_Uf8_M4

The amount of carbon that a peat bog can sequester is astounding, globally there is twice as much carbon locked away in peatlands as all the world's forests.

Restoration Preservation and Sharing this Emblematic Sleeping Beauty waking up to its full Glorious Heritage of Art Nouveau from the founding father "Victor Horta". The Horta House revival is much more than the heritage, the bygone era and how to preserve it. And certainly much more than owning a house. The Horta House makes a statement about the future. What kind of cities we want and indeed, what kind of cities we need.

#FEEM | #Venice | #Research #Seminar 📅 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 ⌚ 12-13 CET 💻 𝐺𝑜𝑇𝑜𝑊𝑒𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟 ♒ 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐚 𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 🎙️ Georg Umgiesser, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 📒 [𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑] 𝐴𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡 The city of #Venice is situated inside the #Venicelagoon at the northwestern end of the #AdriaticSea, a marginal sea in the #Mediterranean. Here some of the highest tides in the Mediterranean help in flushing out #brackishwaters and replacing it with #marinewaters from the #coastalshelf in front of the lagoon. The city has been nominated a #UNESCO #worldheritage site due to the #beauty of its #buildings and #churches and its unique setting with its #canals and its #gondolas. However, #climatechange is threatening this delicate system. If #IPCC projections are right we could have a #sealevel rise between 30 cm and 1 meter, depending on the #RCP #scenarios considered. The #seminar reviews over 25 years of #researchliterature on the #impact of #climatechange on the #city and #lagoon of Venice. 🔗 𝘛𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘦 👇🏻 https://lnkd.in/dFjrwXH6

🏔️ Mountains and Heritage-Making: Balancing Conservation and Cultural Preservation In recent years, mountain regions have gained significant recognition as both cultural and natural heritage. This global trend, championed by Western countries and Eastern Asia, has been institutionalized by organizations like UNESCO, ICCROM, and IUCN. The goal? To protect these precious landscapes and traditional practices, while fostering social cohesion within mountain communities. Heritage designation offers incredible benefits, from the creation of national parks to the safeguarding of cultural traditions. It also promotes sustainable tourism that supports local economies, as seen in successful examples like Australia’s Uluru and the inscription of Alpinism as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. These initiatives show how heritage-making can tackle contemporary challenges like climate change while preserving the essence of mountain traditions. However, there are challenges, including over-tourism, cultural commodification, and the disruption of traditional systems. As highlighted in a new policy brief, careful planning and community engagement are essential. The brief, featuring insights from GEDT members Prof. Bernard D. and Peter Bille Larsen, stresses the importance of local knowledge in creating policies that harmonize heritage preservation with the livelihoods of mountain communities. https://lnkd.in/eX_f8EEA #CulturalHeritage #MountainConservation #SustainableTourism #ISE #UNESCO #Alpinism #LocalCommunities

If we lose our beloved heritage sites, we lose a piece of us. A part of our heritage and cultural identity. Sea-level rise is threatening Easter Island, located in the Pacific Ocean, 3,700 kilometers from the coast of continental Chile. Increasingly stronger waves are eroding the Moai, the island’s iconic colossal statues that represent ancestors, as well as the platforms on which they stand.... #traceability #climatefinance #financeinnovation #moai #rapanui #easterisland #coaching #chiefsustainabilityofficer #sustainability #esgconsulting #esgreporting #sustainablebusiness #sustainablearchitecture #successmindset

"Our cultural practices are tied to our traditional Country and protecting this means that our traditions, stories, and connection to the land can remain strong for future generations."—Kuuku Ya'u Elder, Gregory Pascoe. Yesterday the Australian and Queensland governments, alongside a number of Traditional Owners from the region, announced some areas of Cape York Peninsula have been submitted to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List. Cape York Peninsula is home to extremely rich, complex cultural landscapes which have been vital to and sustained by Traditional Owners for tens of thousands of years. Cape York is also a biodiversity hotspot being home to 18.5% of Australian plant species, despite only being 3% of the continental landmass. The Cape also provides habitat for over 300 threatened species including the green sawfish, Cape York rock wallaby, and southern cassowary. The submission for tentative listing is a first but welcome step towards recognising the globally significant cultural and natural heritage of the Cape, and its universal importance for future generations and the environment. Read more👇 https://lnkd.in/gEhtsDGn #Capeyork #UNESCO #WorldHeritage #biodiversity #queensland

"Tensioni" project was created in 2022 from a strong passion and an incessant desire to observe the Lagoon, a fragile and complex system in which fragility is strength. "Tensioni" between water and land, first of all, in the Lagoon they meet and collide, generating an unstable equilibrium and precarious which is at the origin of the foundation of the city. "Tensioni" to which contemporary Venice is subjected. On the one hand, urban and economic policies push for a modern and efficient city, a tourist location for the elites, and a smart city that is managed to pacify the controversial relationship with the environment. On the other hand, the city itself is a territory that instead looks to the Mediterranean and the East, and what it seems like continuing a dialogue – continuously interrupted and hindered – with this territory and its cities. We have played with the power of imagination, creating urban hybrids that attempt to make explicit the visual paroxysm of these tensions.