Abstract
The impacts of climate change are posing challenges for governments and policy makers globally and at a domestic level. The threats posed by climate change to World Heritage properties are increasingly a matter of concern to States Parties to the World Heritage Convention 1972 which establishes an international legal framework for the protection of natural and cultural world heritage. This article examines the extent to which the World Heritage Convention provides an effective legal framework for the protection of natural and cultural heritage properties inscribed on the World Heritage List and considers the actual and potential impacts of climate change on World Heritage sites, the legal obligations upon States Parties under the Convention relating to climate change and World Heritage, the mechanisms that are available under the Convention to deal with climate change impacts and the need to identify synergies between the Convention and other international agreements that deal with climate change.
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