Activity 10: Integrate adaptation measures into other policies and strategies
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Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Coordinate efforts at World Heritage property level to adapt to climate change with other Conventions and international bodies: World Heritage Decision 31 COM 7.1, 4 and WHC-07/31.COM/7.1 (Policy Document on the Impacts of Climate Change on World Heritage Properties) SEE COMMENTARY 1
- Establish thematic, regional and global linkages and cooperation to understand, access, fund and implement adaptation strategies, actions, tools and/or policy projects: World Heritage Decision 31 COM 7.1, 4 and WHC-07/31.COM/7.1 (Policy Document on the Impacts of Climate Change on World Heritage Properties) SEE COMMENTARY 2
- Integrate actions pertaining to climate change in risk preparedness policies and action plans: World Heritage Decision 31 COM 7.1, 7 SEE COMMENTARY 3
- Encourage World Heritage site managers to monitor relevant climate parameters and to report on adaptation strategies: World Heritage Decision 30 COM 7.1, 8 and WHC-06/30.COM/7.1 (Strategy to assist States Parties to implement appropriate management responses) SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Consider the potential impacts of climate change on world heritage properties within their management planning and take early action in response to these potential impacts: WHC Decision 29 COM 7B.a, 6 SEE COMMENTARY 5
- Integrate climate change adaptation measures in protected area planning, management strategies, and in the design of protected areas systems: CBD Decision VII/28, 18 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex: (Programme of Work on Protected Areas) SEE COMMENTARY 6
- Make information on the implications and vulnerability of coastal wetlands and their role in mitigating sea-level rise available to ICZM processes: Ramsar Resolution VIII.4, 13 and Ramsar Resolution VIII.4, Annex (Principles and guidelines for incorporating wetland issues into Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) SEE COMMENTARY 7
- Consider the effects of sea-level rise and human-induced climate changes in determining the appropriate boundaries for the designation of mangrove areas as Ramsar Sites: Ramsar Resolution VIII.11, 5 and Ramsar Resolution VIII.11, Annex (Guidance for identifying and designating peatlands, wet grasslands, mangroves and coral reefs as Wetlands of International Importance) SEE COMMENTARY 8
- Consider the possible landward migration of mangroves in response to sea-level rise in determining the appropriate boundaries for designation of mangrove areas as Ramsar sites: Ramsar Resolution VIII.11, 5 and Ramsar Resolution VIII.11, Annex (Guidance for identifying and designating peatlands, wet grasslands, mangroves and coral reefs as Wetlands of International Importance) SEE COMMENTARY 9
- Harmonize existing national plans of action for marginal lands and dry lands management and control of land degradation in line with the resolution of Urgent Action for Africa under the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD): IGAD Article 13
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Provide long-term legislative, regulatory, institutional and/or traditional protection and management to the properties on the World Heritage List: WHC Operational Guidelines II.F, 97
- Integrate concern for World Heritage into wider national disaster reduction plans and documentation programmes: WHC Decision 30 COM 7.2, 6
- Implement legislative and regulatory measures at national and local levels: WHC Operational Guidelines II.F, 98
- Develop Management Plans that include a risk-analysis and management component for World Heritage properties: WHC Decision 30 COM 7.2, 6
- Establish an appropriate management plan or system for each nominated World Heritage property: WHC Operational Guidelines II.F, 108 SEE COMMENTARY 10
- Integrate concern for heritage within overall policies and operational mechanisms for disaster mitigation, and develop appropriate risk-sensitive Management Plans for the World Heritage properties: WHC Decision 29 COM 7B.b, 3
- Implement effective management for World Heritage properties in close collaboration with property managers, the agency with management authority and stakeholders: WHC Operational Guidelines II.F, 117
- Include risk preparedness as an element in the World Heritage site management plans: WHC Operational Guidelines II.F, 118
- Itemize what steps have been taken to draw up contingency plans for dealing with natural disasters which present a foreseeable threat to natural heritage sites: WHC Operational Guidelines III.B 129 and WHC Operational Guidelines, Annex 5 SEE COMMENTARY 11
- Include provisions on conservation and restoration of habitats of importance in CMS Agreements: CMS Article 5(e) SEE COMMENTARY 12
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