Story | 18 Nov, 2020

Webinar: IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3

Updated on 14 January 2020 - On Tuesday 8 December, IUCN's World Heritage Programme held an online live event presenting fresh results from the IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3. Two sessions were held to cater for different time zones. Watch the recordings below.

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The IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3 was launched on 2 December 2020 and the webinar, held the following week on 8 December, celebrated this important milestone. The webinar facilitated questions and answers between the panellists and online participants.

Keynote speakers

Mechtild Rössler, Director, UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Kathy MacKinnon, Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas
Jane Smart, Director, IUCN Biodiversity Conservation Group
Cyril Kormos, Vice Chair for World Heritage, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas
Peter Shadie, Director, IUCN World Heritage Programme
Elena Osipova, Senior Monitoring Officer and lead author, IUCN World Heritage Programme

Topic

The IUCN World Heritage Outlook is IUCN’s independent assessment of natural World Heritage, updated every three years since 2014. The report for 2020 and updated Conservation Outlook Assessments for all natural World Heritage sites will be released on worldheritageoutlook.iucn.org.

With three sets of data over a six-year period now available, the IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3 provides an opportunity to identify evolving trends in the global status of natural World Heritage. It can serve as an indicator of the effectiveness of protected and conserved areas at a time when the international community seeks to measure progress towards global biodiversity targets and defines the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.