UNESCO: Australia Blue Mountains petition

UNESCO 6th Danger-listing petition filed (22 June 2007)

 

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UNESCO: World Heritage Committee debate and decision (July 2005)

 

World Heritage Committee Fails to Act

20 July 2006 - The Belize Institute of Environmental Law and Policy, Friends of the Earth International, the Climate Justice Programme and Greenpeace have reacted angrily today after the World Heritage Committee refused to take urgent action to protect some of the world's finest sites from climate change.

ADVANCE NOTICE: World Heritage Group Must Protect Top Sites from Climate Change

Climate Justice Programme, 11 July 2006 - The World Heritage Committee, holding its annual meeting in Lithuania on July 8-16, is being urged by an international coalition of lawyers and environmentalists to back moves to protect some of the world's most outstanding natural sites from climate change.

US Government to oppose World Heritage action on climate change

Climate Justice Programme, 15 March 2006 - The US Government is strongly opposing efforts by the United Nations to protect some of the most vulnerable World Heritage Sites from the impacts of climate change. The position of the USA, which was recently elected to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, has been severely criticised by campaigners.

UNESCO: Sir Edmund Hillary's Statement

Climate Justice Programme, 07 July 2005 -- Sir Edmund Hillary expressed his support today for the danger-listing of Everest because of climate change. The danger-listing is one of three legal petitions, submitted to the World Heritage Committee last November, which countries will be asked to consider at the Committee meeting in Durban, South Africa, from 10-17 July.