Inputs from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre to the 2019 HLPF under the theme “Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development”
A number of key policies and measures to ensure “accelerated action and transformative pathways” have been taken by the World Heritage Committee and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (as the Secretariat for the 1972 World Heritage Convention) for realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development include protecting cultural and natural heritage as contributing transversally across a number of goals and targets.