These are responsible for a wide range of environmental and socio-economic pressures that pose a serious threat to World Heritage properties.
There was also concern for the World Heritage properties of Mount Athos, in Greece, and Laurisilva of Madeira, in Portugal.
Climate change is already adversely affecting many areas, including biodiversity and ecosystems, freshwater resources, human health, human settlements and migration patterns, the conservation of natural and cultural world heritage properties, and peace and prosperity.
The Committee will also review the state of conservation of 147 World Heritage properties, including the 31 sites inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger and another 36 that are causing serious concern.
The Committee will also review the state of conservation of the 30 World Heritage properties inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger and may decide to add to that list new properties whose preservation requires special attention.
Examples of how the Conventions contribute to development include the UNESCO designated sites, such as the nearly 1000 World Heritage properties and over 500 Biosphere Reserves, which provide ideal laboratories where innovative heritage-driven approaches to sustainable development are tested.
Unesco's World Heritage List includes 962 properties around the world which are considered as having "outstanding universal value".
During the session, the World Heritage Committee will examine progress in the conservation of the 35 properties on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
To date, the World Heritage List recognizes 878 properties of "outstanding universal value, " including 679 cultural, 174 natural and 25 mixed properties in 145 States Parties.
During the session, World Heritage Committee members will examine the state of conservation of 169 properties including the 34 sites inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger because of serious threats to their outstanding universal value.
This Convention established the World Heritage List which currently includes 890 properties considered to have Outstanding Universal Value.
Three of those countries - Burkina Faso, Cape Verde and Kyrgyzstan - have no properties inscribed on the World Heritage List to date.
Icomos is responsible for evaluating cultural properties nominated to the World Heritage List and submitting a recommendation to the annual meeting, it said on its website.
Six of these countries stand to have properties inscribed on the World Heritage List for the first time during the forthcoming session: Barbados, Jamaica, Micronesia, Palau, Congo, and the United Arab Emirates.
Reports on the state of conservation of 105 properties already inscribed on the World Heritage List will also be reviewed by the Committee during the session.
The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) is one of the advisory bodies that help the World Heritage Committee decide on the inscription of cultural properties.
Today, as it reaches maturity with so many sites on its List, the ultimate contribution of the World Heritage Convention does not just go to those properties that are listed, but to the long-term protection of our planet and its resources.
The Committee inscribed 21 new World Heritage Sites, including 15 cultural, 5 natural and 1 mixed properties.
Thirty new properties in total were submitted for inscription on the World Heritage List this year: 4 natural, 23 cultural and 3 mixed (i.e. both natural and cultural) properties, including 4 transnational nominations.
Signatories agree to adopt stringent national policies for the protection of their cultural and natural sites and to nominate properties of "outstanding universal significance" within their territories for inscription on the World Heritage List.
The 1972 World Heritage Convention links together in a single document the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural properties.
The current UK World Heritage Review of the Tentative List published in 2011, explains the rationale for the selection of the properties and identifies the 11 nominees.
The most significant feature of the 1972 World Heritage Convention is that it binds in a single document the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural properties and sets out the duties of member-states and the international community for the preservation of monuments of world heritage.
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