Abstract
The World Heritage Convention could emerge as a crucial tool in the fight against climate change. Therefore, it is important to understand to what extent the regulatory framework established under the Convention provides means and sets up obligations for States to act against it. This chapter explores this question by considering how the World Heritage Convention interacts with the existing international instruments specifically targeting climate change, in particular the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the foreseeable post-Kyoto regime. The language of the World Heritage Convention permits climate change to be characterized as a threat to World Heritage against which States Parties have to fight. the World Heritage Convention is not the only convention likely to be invoked in order to reinforce mitigation measures against greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; suffice it to think of the Convention on Biological Diversity or the Antarctic Treaty. Keywords:climate change; greenhouse gas (GHG); Kyoto Protocol; UNFCCC; World Heritage Convention
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