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Plataforma Montanhas, Vales, Vida e Cidadania Pela Sustentabilidade em Tempos Cambios Climaticos

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Sustainable Development: Climate change Consumption and production patterns Desertification and Drought Disaster management and vulnerability Forests Freshwater Gender equality Human settlements Integrated decision-making Mountains Oceans and seas Protecting and managing the natural resources Rural Development Sustainable Tourism Transport Waste (radioactive)
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Brazil
Millennium Development Goals:	Ensure environmental sustainability
Mission statement:	1. The Mountains, Valleys, Life and Citizenship Platform, created by the individuals and the entities undersigned, warns the Brazilian and the Global society about the 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 socio-environmental points of view through the perspective of climate change; 2. Permanent Preservation Areas - APPs are those protected areas in terms of 2º and 3º Articles of the Brazilian Forest Code (Federal Law No. 4.771/1965). The legal concept of APP relates to such areas, regardless of soil cover, the environmental function of preserving water resources, landscape, geological stability, biodiversity, plants and animals gene flow, of protecting the soil and of ensuring the well- being of human populations; 4. The Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil (1988) asserts, in Article 225, that the environment is a healthy and balanced right of the community, therefore everyone - 5. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (1992), held in Rio de Janeiro guarded Chapter XIII of AGENDA XXI, for fragile mountain ecosystems, because they are important sources of water, energy and biological diversity. In addition, they are key resources – for minerals, forest and agricultural products - and are a source of pleasure. the global ecosystem.. Yet mountain ecosystems are undergoing rapid change. They are vulnerable to accelerated soil erosion, landslides and rapid loss of genetic diversity and habitat; 6. Rio +20 is an excellent opportunity now to assess the status of the Sao Paulo, the Brazilian and the Global mountains, slopes and valleys environmental degradation, the actions taken in support of sustainable mountain development, the challenges, the opportunities and the necessary steps to move forward in the future; 7. In times of climate change, it is essential that all development activities, among them the infrastructure for transmontana mobility, are seized based on the principles of precaution and prevention, since natural disasters recorded in 2010 killed more than 296 800 people in the world; 8. It urges the incorporation to the concept of sustainability, the concept of survival considering that in one year the average number of victims was more than quadrupled since 1980 (66.000 deaths) and costed about $ 130 billion. 950 natural disasters were recorded in 2010, a figure well above the average of 615 over the last 30 years. In Brazil, relapse enhanced, the tragedies of the highlands, by 2011. 9. Over the next 60 years, the storms in the city of São Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro, in the coastal towns and along the Atlantic Mountain Range - Serra do Mar - will triple, as, scientific study conducted by INPE (National Institute for Space Research) in partnership with the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and IAE (Institute of Aeronautics and Space). The forecast is based on increasing the temperature Atlantic Ocean water over the past 60 years, which was 0.6 ° C.; 10. The Mountains, Valleys, Life and Citizenship Platform, calls everyone to join forces and to contribute with proposals and to promote debate with a view: 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 natural resources;
Year established:	2011
Year of registration:	2011
Organizational structure:	Volunteer Project Manager + some more volunteers
Number and type of members:	500 networks, civil organizations and citizen activists have already signed the present Adhesion Letter which was launched in Sao Paulo State, parallel to the 1st Rio +20 Paulista Seminar, as during the Seminar of the 4th edition of the MDGs promoted by The Presidency General Secretariat , the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) and the National Movement for Citizenship and Solidarity, as well as during the Dialogue and Convergence National Meeting of Agro ecology, Environmental Health and Justice, Food Sovereignty , Solidarity Economy and Feminism
Affiliation with NGO networks:	earthdaynetwork, mcpa reference centers, justica ambiental, rbrasil, comite rio+20 sao paulo,
Funding structure other:	only on volunteer basis up to now

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