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UNESCO vigilant on potential impacts of oil exploration in Namibia and Botswana on World Heritage properties

UNESCO vigilant on potential impacts of oil exploration in Namibia and Botswana on World Heritage properties (05/12/2007) © Department of Wildlife and National Parks / Ian Johnson UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre vigilant on potential impacts of oil and gas exploration in Namibia and Botswana on the Tsodila and Okavango Delta World Heritage properties. UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre has been made aware of petitions by civil society groups received by the UNESCO office in Windhoek, Namibia. The Centre is following with attention and concern the oil and gas exploration projects in north-eastern Namibia and north-western Botswana by the Canadian company Reconnaissance Africa (ReconAfrica), which could potentially impact on the Okavango Delta and Tsodilo World Heritage properties.

Décisions du Conseil des Ministres du 18 décembre2020

Maurice Info Search Les membres du gouvernement ont pris note de la création d’un of a Special Fund to finance the National COVID-19 Vaccination Programme, que la prérode de la quarantaine a été étendue au 15 février 2020, qu’il y a 24 cas de Covid-19 actifs dans les services hopsitlaier entre autres. 1. Cabinet has agreed to the setting up of a Special Fund to finance the National COVID-19 Vaccination Programme in the Republic of Mauritius. The Special Fund would be set up, under the Finance and Audit Act to mobilise and manage the funds required for implementing the Programme.

How marine World Heritage sites successfully assess climate vulnerability

Search Thursday, 17 December 2020 Antarctic Melting Glacier in a Global Warming Environment. © Bernhard Staehli/Shutterstock.com On 3 December 2020, climate experts and local management teams from the 50 UNESCO marine World Heritage sites met online in an effort to accelerate replication of initial successes in assessing climate vulnerability.  The online meeting was the fourth edition in a new digital exchange platform that was launched by the World Heritage Centre in March 2020. During the meeting, experts from Australia’s James Cook University presented a newly developed rapid assessment tool called the Climate Vulnerability Index or CVI. The tool allows World Heritage managers and local communities to identify key climate threats to the Outstanding Universal Value of sites and set priorities for action. The tool helps local teams to take a more hands-on approach to assessing climate impacts while limiting costs and time for implementation.

UNESCO Centre du patrimoine mondial - Document - HEADS 2: Human Origin Sites and the World Heritage Convention in Africa

Description In this, the first in a series of geographically themed examinations of Human Evolution sites in the context of the HEADS (Human Evolution: Adaptations, Dispersals, and Social Developments) World Heritage Thematic Programme, current issues in human origins research and site management are explored in the context of the classic region of human evolution research: Africa. There is no more appropriate  place to begin a regionally themed examination of human origins;  just as modern hominid ancestors dispersed from Africa millennia ago, so has much of the current, groundbreaking recent research on the topic of human origins. The vast African continent also offers a multitude of social, political and natural environments within which to examine the successes, test the limitations, and fill in the gaps of the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in the context of human evolution sites. The issue examines the evolving Outstanding Universal Value of African sites t

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