Also welcomes the increased collaboration among the Biodiversity-related Conventions through the Biodiversity Liaison Group and focused activities, including workshops, joint statements and awareness-raising.Welcomes the proactive role of the Secretariat for enhancing synergies between the World Heritage Convention and the other Culture and Biodiversity-related Conventions, particularly the integration of relevant synergies aspects in the revised Periodic Reporting Format and the launch of a synergy-related web page on the Centre’s website.Takes note with appreciation of the activities undertaken by the World Heritage Centre over the past year in pursuit of the Expected Result to ensure that “tangible heritage is identified, protected, monitored and sustainably managed by Member States, in particular through the effective implementation of the 1972 Convention”, and the five strategic objectives as presented in Document WHC/18/42.COM/5A.
Recalling Decision 41 COM 5A adopted at its 41st session (Krakow, 2017) and Decision 40 COM 5D adopted at its 40th session (Istanbul/UNESCO, 2016),.Having examined Document WHC/18/42.COM/5A,.UNESCO’s actions for the International Year of SIDS Outcome document: Small Island Developing States Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA Pathway) The SIDS Conference focused the world's attention on a group of countries that remain a special case for sustainable development in view of their unique and particular vulnerabilities. More information about the about the Platform as well as Resolutions adopted by the UNESCO General Conference, Decisions adopted by the UNESCO Executive Board and other documents related to SIDS are available from UNESCO Intersectoral Platform.Ģ014 was dedicated to the United Nations’ International Year of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States was held in Apia, Samoa (1-4 September 2014). The SIDS platform mobilizes UNESCO’s house-wide contribution for the Sustainable Development of SIDS through an integrated approach to sustainable island living and development, emphasizing interregional linkages and cooperation, reflecting the priority status assigned to SIDS in UNESCO’s current strategy. The World Heritage Programme for SIDS is a part of this platform. In 2008, to ensure that UNESCO’s unique multi-disciplinary expertise – in science, culture, climate change, education, biodiversity resource preservation, knowledge management and information for decision-making – are productively used in addressing the multiplicity of challenges facing SIDS, a UNESCO intersectoral platform has been established. The 29th session of the World Heritage Committee in 2005 adopted the World Heritage Programme for SIDS ( Decision 29 COM 5B), and the SIDS have since become a point of focus for World Heritage identification and protection.Įnglish French UNESCO Intersectoral Platform The SIDS were recognized as a distinct group of developing countries in June 1992, at the UN Conference on Environment and Development. The UNESCO SIDS Programme develops World Heritage activities in these areas, providing support for new nominations to the World Heritage List, and sustainable conservation and management practices for sites already inscribed. They are relatively remote, vulnerable to environmental challenges, such as climate change, and generally small in size-Niue has a population of only 1,269, and Tuvalu a total land area of only 26km. They are some of the most beautiful places on Earth, with atolls of white sand beaches, mountain ranges covered in cloud forest, historic ports and towns, and agricultural landscapes. Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are islands of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
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