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Mountains Valleys Life

& Citizienship

Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change


Mountains Valleys

Life

& Citizienship

Plataform

for Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change

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2012 document

To: UNCSD secretariat Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011 Stakeholder type:

Plataform

of NGOsName: Mountains Valleys

Life

& Citizienship

Plataform

For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate ChangeSubmission Document: UNCSD2012MVVC_CCplataform.pdfEmail: [email protected]:http://plataforma‐

montanhas.rio20.net/category/documentos/

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Project

Manager: Léa

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The Plataform

is now composed by almost 500 networks, civil organizations and citizens

who have already signed the Adhesion Letter .

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& Citizienship

Platafor

for Sustainable Development on Times of Climate

Change

was launched in Sao Paulo State, parallel to the

1st Rio +20

Paulista

Seminar,

also

during the Seminar of the 4th edition of the MDGs

promoted by The Presidencial

General

Secretariat , the United Nations Development Programme

( UNDP

) and the National Movement

for Citizenship and Solidarity, as well as during the National Dialogue

and Convergence Meeting

of Agroecology, Environmental Health and Justice, Food Sovereignty , Solidarity Economy and

Feminism, in Salvador, Bahia.

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The Plataform Launched


A case study: Threaned Cassador Basin is one of the civil historical of the Plataform

Protestors block Brazil road project ‐The Earth Times by Jack Freeman, 4/13/97

In São

Paulo Metropolitan Green Belt lies the Cassador

Basin located in the core area, of the

Atlantic

Rainforest World Heritage‐

Mab

–

Unesco, it hides

the

Iterei Fauna and Flora Reserve, officially under

private protection, since 1978 (P‐163/78IBDF) and an

official member of Planet Society‐

Unesco

(Project

BRA022). Around

there

it

is

planned

the

duplication

of

the

hiway

dividing

these

important

area.

"It must be made clear," they say in a flyer, "that there is no

opposition to the construction of the highway" itself,

calling it "a very important project linked to the

economic well‐being of millions of Latin Americans."

But, they add, "the rainforest must not be destroyed" by

the roadbuilders. "The authorities must change the

design of the proposed duplication" of the roadway,

they say, "in order to avoid destruction of a priceless

ecosystem. A well designed project will cause no

harm to the environment; on the contrary, the unique

nature of this beautiful landscape will be enhanced."

They add that there are many examples, the world over, of

environmentally insensitive building projects that

have been reversed because of pressure brought by

environmentalists and the general public.


Serra do Mar Civil Society and Ecologists

Thus, although

all

efforts

being

yet

unsucessful, for caution

a

group

of

citiziens

, the

Iguassu

Iterei Reference

Center

from

the

Citizienship

Mouvement

for Water,

Mountains and

Forests

and

others

civil society

organizations, considering

that

not

just

in

Cassador

Basin

but

all

over

mountains

are been

neglected

decided

that

it

was

time for more effective

actions

and

mobilization

suported

by

the

prevention

and

precaution

principles

and

against

the

environmental

legal flexibilization.

From

theory

to practice

. This

is

the

origin

of

the

Mountains

Valleys

Life

& Citizienship

Plataform

For Sustainable Development

on Times of Climate Change

towards

Rio+20, on

the

basys

for desirable

participative

governance.


1.

The Mountains, Valleys, Life and Citizensip

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 Brazilian 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, as well

as of protecting the soil and of ensuring the well‐

being of human populations;

3. The environment is the set of conditions, laws, influences and interactions of physical, chemical,

biological, social, cultural and urban, which allows and governs

life in all its forms (Brazilian

Federal Law No. 6938/1981);

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Must remember that everybody lives downstream!


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 ‐

the

Government and the society ‐

have a duty to defend it for their own enjoyment and for the

future generations;

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. As a

major ecosystem representing the complex and inter‐related ecology of our planet, mountain

environments are essential for the survival of 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;

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9.

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; 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

waater

over the past 60 years, which was 0.6 ° C.;

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Tragical Landslides in Brazil


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;

11. The Mountains, Valleys, Life and Citizenship Platform confirms the population aspiration

for a Brazil and for a World with more health, less injustice, in which the quality of life for

all is a criterion taken into account. A World in which the poorest are not relegated to

places destroyed, dangerous and unhealthy. Where nature is respected in order to

remain our main source of life and not the messenger of our diseases and disasters,

(CBDFDS, 2011).

São

Paulo&Salvador, September 2011

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& Citizienship

Plataform For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change towards Rio+2


–

Text

and

Designs

AuthorLéa

Corrêa Pinto, Volunteer

Project

Manager, founder member of Mountains Valleys

Life

&

Citizienship

Plataform, coordinator

of

CR MCPA Mountains and Forests Iguassu Iterei –

Photos and imagesGoogle ImagesAP Photo/Felipe DanaEcovias dos ImigrantesGabriel Asa C. GrubergerInstituto Rã ‐

BugioLéa

Corrêa PintoLuiz BocianOsmar CastroPeter MixRogério MenezesVANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty

Images–

DrawingsChildren

Contexts

Credits


The

Mountain´s

Magie

All over the world mountains have been a children´s theme on their drawings and have been worshiped by the traditional natives, and around here it is just the same , even up to now by oneanother as well as in the other countries!

The belief that mountains get mad when hurted could be accepted, considering the uptodate geological and geotechnical knowledge.

Nowdays mountains preservation must be based on incentives. Also it is necessary to alert about compensation mechanisms in order that the mountains good willers not to become dependent of evil actions against nature.

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