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Date submitted: 17 Feb 2012
Date resubmitted: 20 Feb 2012
Stakeholder type: NGOs Plataform
Name: Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change
Email: s.lourencinho@uol.com.br
Blog : http://plataforma-montanhas.rio20.net/category/documentos/
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Volunteer Project Manager also Founder Member : Pinto, L. Correa
Mountains - regarding the existing Chapter V parag. 94
We recognize that mountain [s - delete] [ecosystems - Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change are highly vulnerable to global changes such as climate change, and are often home [for millions of people in the Metropolitan Areas and for thousands of people on Forestal or Rural Mountains as well as for - Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change] communities including of indigenous peoples, who have developed sustainable uses of their resources yet are often marginalized, sometimes with high poverty rates, exposure to natural risks and food insecurity. [We stress the importance of recognizing the vulnerability of mountain ecosystems in the cities , forests, desert or rural areas within the three Rio conventions and of adopting action plans for each related to sustainable development - Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change ].
We recognize the [positive and unaccounted economic, importance of mountains and valleys, from the urban to the rural and the forested ones, regarding their space, territoriality, local and downstream communities from the strategical, global economic and socioenvironmental points of view through the perspective of climate change; - Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change ] benefits [derived from mountains and their associated ecosystems - Iguassu Iterei Centro de Referência do Movimento da Cidadania pelas Águas Florestas e Montanhas delete] [that mountains and mountain ecosystems provide not only to highland communities, but also to a large portion of the world's population living in lowland areas and several Global Metropolis as São Paulo, Santos or smaller towns as example Registro, Miracatu ( BR) - Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change ].
We also recognize the need to explore global, regional, national, and local mechanisms to compensate and reward mountain [landowners- Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change] communities for the [essential - Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change ] services they provide [for human well-being and economic activity - Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change ] through ecosystem protection. [We underline the importance of developing innovative means of financing , from landowners, associations to government programs , for their protection - Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change ]
[We welcome the growing contribution of sustainable tourism initiatives in mountain regions as a way to enhance environmental protection and socio-economic benefits to landowners, local communities- Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change ]
[We stress the importance of that all development activities, among them the infrastructure for transmontana mobility, are seized based on the principles of precaution and prevention, as well of the building capacity, estimulating all ART expression, with a focal view on Mountains, strengthening academic research on mountain ecosystems, its natural resources, its interdependence with the slopes and valleys, special means to apply infrastructure on Mountains, special means for rural and cities mountains Habitat strengthening institutions and enhancing higher and continuing education on mountain issues in order to expand opportunities and encourage the retention of skilled people, including youth, in traditional mountain areas - Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change ]
[We stress the importance on the maintenance of existing environmental legislation; on the weighting of the true public interest, through the prism of medium and long term, as to public and private enterprises, on the analysis of all alternatives, and regardless of the immediate costs, the forecast is to opt for greater safety of the population, to the less disastrous alternative, to the adoption of the best scientific and technological knowledge, with the purpose of ensuring to all the multiple functions of mountain ecosystems - Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change ]
[We stress the importance of promoting artistic, scientific , research, and educational and legal programmes in order to foster sustainable mountain development at all levels and recognize that sustainable mountain development is a key component in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in many regions of the world - Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change ]
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