Environment News Service: Climate change is quickly becoming one of the most challenging risks for World Heritage sites and the tourists who want to visit them, finds 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.
"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...