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"New Report Shows World Heritage Icons at Risk from Climate Change"

Climate change is fast becoming one of the most significant risks for World Heritage sites, according to the report “World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate”, released today by UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

“Globally, we need to understand, monitor and address climate change threats to World Heritage sites better,” said Mechtild Rössler, Director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre. “As the report’s findings underscore, achieving the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to a level well below 2 degrees Celsius is vitally important to protecting our World Heritage for current and future generations.”

The new report lists 31 natural and cultural World Heritage sites in 29 countries that are vulnerable to increasing temperatures, melting glaciers, rising seas, intensifying weather events, worsening droughts and longer wildfire seasons. It documents climate impacts at iconic tourism sites—including Venice, Stonehenge and the Galapagos Islands—and other World Heritage sites such as South Africa’s Cape Floral Kingdom; the port city of Cartagena, Colombia; and Shiretoko National Park in Japan.

“Climate change is affecting World Heritage sites across the globe,” said Adam Markham, lead author of the report and Deputy Director of the Climate and Energy Program at UCS. “Some Easter Island statues are at risk of being lost to the sea because of coastal erosion. Many of the world’s most important coral reefs, including in the islands of New Caledonia in the western Pacific, have suffered unprecedented coral bleaching linked to climate change this year. Climate change could eventually even cause some World Heritage sites to lose their status.”

Because World Heritage sites must have “Outstanding Universal Value,” the report recommends that the World Heritage Committee consider the risk of prospective sites becoming degraded by climate change before adding them to the List.

Relatório aqui.

"O chocalho já é património cultural imaterial da UNESCO"

A Unesco (Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, Ciência e Cultura) aprovou esta terça-feira a classificação da arte chocalheira portuguesa a Património Cultural Imaterial com Necessidade de Salvaguarda Urgente.

"Rio - Candidate City as UNESCO 's World Heritage Site (Cultural Landscape) 2012"

Rio de Janeiro

Unesco declara Rio de Janeiro Patrimônio Mundial

Barragem do Tua: Relatório do ICOMOS/UNESCO

O relatório da ICOMOS escondido pelo governo

Fado!

Fado: "Património Imaterial da Humanidade"- Fado: "Intangible Heritage of Humanity"

Este é o texto oficial do comité de peritos da UNESCO que recomenda a inscrição do Fado na Lista Representativa do Património Cultural da Humanidade. Agora falta a votação pelo Comité Inter-Governamental da Convenção, que terá lugar em Bali, a 27 de Novembro. Está quase!


DRAFT DECISION 6.COM 13.39 The Committee

1. Takes note that Portugal has nominated Fado, urban popular song of Portugal for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, described as follows: Fado is a performance genre incorporating music and poetry widely practised by various communities in Lisbon. It represents a Portuguese multicultural synthesis of Afro-Brazilian sung dances, local traditional genres of song and dance, musical traditions from rural areas of the country brought by successive waves of internal immigration, and the cosmopolitan urban song patterns of the early nineteenth century. Fado songs are usually performed by a solo singer, male or female, traditionally accompanied by a wire-strung acoustic guitar and the Portuguese guitarra – a pear-shaped lute with twelve wire strings, unique to Portugal, which also has an extensive solo repertoire. The past few decades have witnessed this instrumental accompaniment expanded to two Portuguese guitars, a guitar and a bass guitar. Fado is performed professionally on the concert circuit and in small ‘Fado houses’, and by amateurs in numerous grass-root associations located throughout older neighbourhoods of Lisbon. Informal tuition by older, respected exponents takes place in traditional performance spaces and often over successive generations within the same families. The dissemination of Fado through emigration and the world music circuit has reinforced its image as a symbol of Portuguese identity, leading to a process of cross-cultural exchange involving other musical traditions.

2. Decides that, from the information provided in nomination file 00563, Fado, urban popular song of Portugal satisfies the criteria for inscription on the Representative List, as follows: R.1: A musical and lyrical expression of great versatility, Fado strengthens the feeling of belonging and identity within the community of Lisbon, and its leading practitioners continue to transmit the repertory and practices to younger performers; R.2: Inscription of Fado on the Representative List could contribute to further interaction with other musical genres, both at the national and international levels, thus ensuring visibility and awareness of the intangible cultural heritage and encouraging intercultural dialogue; R.3: Safeguarding measures reflect the combined efforts and commitment of the bearers,local communities, the Museum of Fado, the Ministry of Culture, as well as other local and national authorities and aim at long-term safeguarding through educational programmes, research, publications, performances, seminars and workshops; R.4: Fado musicians, singers, poets, historians, luthiers, collectors, researchers, the Museum of Fado and other institutions participated in the nomination process, and their free, prior and informed consent is demonstrated; R.5: Fado is included in the catalogue of the Museu do Fado which was expanded in 2005 into a general inventory including also the collections of a wide range of public and private museums and archives.

3. Inscribes Fado, urban popular song of Portugal on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Fado

Quadro de José Malhoa

Portugal vai apresentar candidatura do Fado a Património Imaterial da Humanidade

Tango

Unesco declara o tango património cultural imaterial da Humanidade

Esperamos que o mesmo aconteça com o Fado.