The Committee adopts the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List

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Twenty-two years after the Convention, the Committee formally acknowledged that its own List was lopsided — geographically towards Europe and North America, thematically towards monumental architecture, and categorically towards cultural rather than natural properties. The Global Strategy was the corrective: broaden what counts as heritage, and build nomination capacity where it is missing. Subsequent scholarly review finds the imbalance did not measurably shrink.

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