so Far have over a thousand places got a place on Unesco’s world heritage site, which consists of both kultursteder and natural areas.
But if climate change continues, many of these places either lose their unique value or disappear altogether, fear researchers.
Klimaturisme
Almost all world heritage sites are threatened by climate change, in large or small degree, ” says Adam Markham, the deputy chair for climate and energiprogrammet by the Union of Concerned Scientists to CNN.
MAY be: Researchers believe that the statue of liberty in the united STATES in a greater degree of being affected by flooding and stormskader because of climate change in the future. Photo: Lucas Jackson / Reuters / NTB Scanpix Show more
An example that is constantly used is the Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland, where the government is promoting the glacier as an “opportunity to experience climate change up close”.
– Meetings, we do not the goals of Parisavtalen, we’re going to lose many world heritage sites, ” says Markham.
Bjørn Samset, a climate researcher at CICERO Center for climate research, ” says development can’t be turned around, even if we reach the goals in Parisavtalen.
the DAMAGE has ALREADY OCCURRED: a climate researcher Bjørn Samset says the damage to world heritage sites, can’t be reversed, even if we manage to achieve the goals of the Parisavtalen. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB Scanpix Show more
– The reverse is nothing. Even with the 1 degree slope, it becomes much worse, resulting in higher costs for the preservation of world heritage sites, ” says Samset to the Newspaper.
Yellowstone in danger
According to a joint report by the Un environment programme, UNESCO and the Union of Concerned Scientists experience Yellowstone national park in the united STATES, shorter winters with less snowfall, warmer rivers and shrinking lakes and wetlands.
the Scientists behind the report estimate that nearly half of the wetlands can be lost, and that more frequent fires probably will lead to that the dense forest is a more open wooded area, over time.
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Also the statue of liberty in New York city could be affected by climate change, believe the researchers. When hurricane Sandy struck in 2012, was part of the statuens internal structure damaged.
According to the report, there is a risk that the rise in sea level and increased intensity of storms in the future can frame the statue even harder than the hurricane in 2012.
Flooding in Venice
Venice is one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, and in 2017 was the Italian jewel visited by over 30 million tourists. In July, will UNESCO consider whether Venice shall be placed by the side of the United states the Everglades National Park and rain forest in Madagascar on the list of world heritage in danger.
This is due to the fact that more floods have hit the city in the last year. As havnivåene rises, the issue becomes more and more serious.
FLOODING: In the report it says that Stonehenge is among the places in the Uk which is prone to nedbørsrelaterte damage. Photo: Ben Birchall / Pa Photos / NTB Scanpix Show more
According to the report, sea level rise also around the Uk coast, as do the pearls that Stonehenge is in danger of being affected by flooding and extreme rainfall.
Rising havtemperaturer
Rising havtemperaturer has affected the coral reef, Aldabra atoll in The indian ocean, the Belize Barrier Reef in the Atlantic ocean and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the last few years.
In the 2016 and 2017 took varmebølger life of about half the corals on the Great Barrier Reef.
the Great Barrier Reef is dying slowly, but surely
When the water becomes hot enough, over 30 degrees, sticking the algae off. A short time after being corals glistening white, and the process of koralldød begins.
– Monitors places
Mechtild Rössler, director of Unesco’s world heritage verdensarvsenter, says to CNN that they continually monitor climate change effect on the spots.
– If we cannot protect these places against threats, how will the future look like? The world heritage convention says that we must identify these unique places and transfer them to future generations. If we don’t have anything left to transfer, is this a dramatic situation, ” she says.
According to Adam Markham, the deputy chair for climate and energiprogrammet by the Union of Concerned Scientists, one solution is to develop a sårbarhetsindeks.
– This will make it possible for countries that handle arvsteder to better understand, monitor and cope with risk of climate change, ” he says.
FLOODED with: Venice’s historic centre is constantly flooded. It will, according to forecasts happen more and more frequently in the future. Photo: Luca Bruno / AP / NTB Scanpix Show more more extreme storms
– These are the examples we mention everywhere, all the time. The sea will take the island the statue of liberty stands on (Liberty Island, ed.anm.), and finally, also Manhattan, ” says Bjørn Samset, a climate researcher at CICERO Center for climate research, to Dagbladet.
He adds:
– the Sea is rising, but there is a more insidious thing that happens in the long term. In the shorter term there are more hurricanes like Sandy – it is not necessarily more hurricanes, but they are stronger than before.
Samset tells that the threat to world heritage sites, is a complex one.
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Climate change turns along with other things. Venice is sinking anyway, but in addition the huge influx of tourists, and more acidic, and higher water, which together comprise the threat to the places.
– a Lot of money
Klimaforskeren emphasizes that Stonehenge and the statue of liberty hardly goes in solution with the first.
They will probably be standing for a while. Conservators working to preserve these places, and a lot of money to be added into the work, ” he says.
But what about all the other places, which is not on the verdensarvlista? Everything that is happening with the Taj Mahal (in India), also happens with all the villages and agriculture in the near, in a country with a billion inhabitants.
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