At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP22) in Marrakech from 7-18 November 2016, US/ICOMOS and ICOMOS Morocco will participate as co-hosts of two official side events on key issues of cultural heritage.
ICOMOS would like to thank Mr Andrew Potts of US/ICOMOS for his contributions as the ICOMOS Focal Point for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
ICOMOS would like to take this opportunity to introduce Dr Ege Yildirim of ICOMOS Turkey as the new ICOMOS Focal Point for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She will continue to coordinate ICOMOS activities of sustainable development in relation to the agenda of the UN SDGs. Read her Agenda for 2017-2018.
The UN Habitat 3 meetings have been 20 years in the making and now the time has come! Next week, over 40,000 governments, experts and stakeholders will assemble in Quito, Ecuador to finalize the "New Urban Agenda" - a document designed to guide sustainable urbanism for the next 20 years.
The “Our Common Dignity” initiative and the rights dimension of the new Sustainable Development policy of the World Heritage Convention were discussed in a side event at the World Heritage Committee meeting in Istanbul on 12 July 2016.
The #culture2015goal campaign, of which ICOMOS is a member, has released a position paper on the ‘zero draft’ of the Habitat III New Urban Agenda.