{"id":13711,"date":"2023-08-04T04:13:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T22:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13711"},"modified":"2025-04-02T06:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:08:36","slug":"unesco-heritage-danger-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/unesco-heritage-danger-list\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO heritage danger list"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About UNESCO heritage danger list:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The list highlights a number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites which are threatened due to factors <strong>like armed conflict and war<\/strong>, <strong>earthquakes and other natural disasters<\/strong>, pollution, <strong>poaching, uncontrolled urbanisation<\/strong> and unchecked tourist development.<\/li>\n<li>UNESCO also <strong>sets certain guidelines and criteria under the 1972 World Heritage Convention, <\/strong>which decide, whether or not, a property is faced with specific and proven imminent danger or threat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Key facts about UNESCO<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>specialized agency of the United Nations<\/strong> (UN).<\/li>\n<li>The constitution, which entered into force in 1946, called for the promotion of international <strong>collaboration in education, science, and culture<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The agency\u2019s permanent <strong>headquarters are in Paris, France.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Parent Organisation &#8211; United Nations Economic and Social Council<\/li>\n<li><strong>Goal: <\/strong>The primary goals of UNESCO are to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, and culture, and to promote sustainable development and intercultural dialogue.<\/li>\n<li>UNESCO believes that these areas are crucial for building a more just, peaceful, and inclusive world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Climate?<\/h3>\n<p>Climate refers to the long-term patterns and averages of weather conditions in a specific region or the Earth as a whole. It is different from weather, which refers to short-term atmospheric conditions like temperature, precipitation, humidity, and wind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/climate-change\/climate-crisis-tourism-may-place-venice-on-unesco-heritage-danger-list-90947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Climate crisis, tourism may place Venice on UNESCO heritage danger list<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNESCO heritage danger list highlights a number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites which are threatened due to factors like armed conflict and war, earthquakes and other natural disasters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}