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Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform
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Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform
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inputs and contributions for compilation rio 2012 document
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To: UNCSD secretariat Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011 Stakeholder type: Plataform of NGOs
Name: Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform
For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change
Submission Document: UNCSD2012MVVC_CCplataform.pdf
Email: [email protected]
Blog:http://plataforma‐
montanhas.rio20.net/category/documentos/
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Community Facebook:
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The Begining:
http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/becerecos/message/1382
Volunteer Project Manager: Léa Corrêa Pinto
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Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform
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The Plataform is now composed by almost 500 networks, civil organizations and citizens who have already signed the Adhesion Letter .
The Mountains Valleys Life & 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
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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. 5
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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
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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.
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Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform
For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change
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); 7
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Must remember that everybody lives
downstream!
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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; 9
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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.; 10
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Tragical Landslides in Brazil
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Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform
For Sustainable Development on Times of Climate Change towards
Rio+2
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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Credits
Text and Designs Author
Léa Corrêa Pinto, Volunteer Project Manager, founder member of Mountains Valleys Life & Citizienship Plataform, coordinator of CR MCPA Mountains and Forests Iguassu Iterei –
Photos and images
Google Images
AP Photo/Felipe Dana
Ecovias dos Imigrantes
Gabriel Asa C. Gruberger
Instituto Rã ‐ Bugio
Léa Corrêa Pinto
Luiz Bocian
Osmar Castro
Peter Mix
Rogério Menezes
VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images
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Drawings
Children Contexts
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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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