- FACT SHEET: DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE Y REGIONES DE MONTAÑA Cooperación Global, Marzo 2014 Las regiones de montaña albergan una quinta parte de la población mundial y son fuente de agua dulce para media humanidad. Suiza, es un país de montaña altamente comprometido con el desarrollo sostenible de las regiones montañosas del mundo. La COSUDE colabora estrechamente con varios socios suizos e internacionales y asume un papel de liderazgo en los debates globales sobre la materia.
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. . . . - FACTSHEET: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND MOUNTAIN REGIONS Global cooperation March 2014 Mountain regions are home to one fifth of the world’s population and the source of fresh water for half of all humanity. As a mountain country, Switzerland is committed to sustainable development of mountain regions throughout the world. The SDC works closely with a number of Swiss and international partners and takes a leading role in global discussions on this subject.
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. . . . - MOUNTAINS AS THE WATER TOWERS OF THE WORLD. A CALL FOR ACTION ON THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs) Mountains cover 25 percent of the world’s land surface, and directly support 12 percent of the world’s population living within mountain regions. Sustainable mountain development (SMD) should be a global priority, given the multitude of ecosystem goods and services that mountain provide, not just to mountain peoples but to the millions living downstream. Following the call for SMD in Chapter 13 of Agenda 21, the action plan endorsed by the ‘Earth Summit’ in 1992, and the recent Rio+20 outcome document, “The Future We Want”, mountains need to be covered by the SDGs, especially the goals where mountains play a crucial role for global sustainable development. These include the focus areas related to water and sanitation, poverty eradication, food security, energy, ecosystems and biodiversity as well as climate change.
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. . . . - MOUNTAINS: OUR LIFE, OUR FUTURE. PROGRESS AND PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABLE MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT: FROM RIO 1992 TO RIO 2012 AND BEYOND. A GLOBAL SYNTHESIS BASED ON 10 REGIONAL REPORTS
Clara Ariza, Daniel Maselli and Thomas Kohler. 2013
In order to support a renewed “Global Mountain Agenda” and to follow up the Rio+20 conference with concrete actions, it is important to assess and understand what has changed. Concerns about climate change have grown over the last decade, including its direct effects on mountain ecosystems and people. The accelerating pace of unexpected and unpredictable political, social, economic and technological change also poses threats to mountain development in different geographic contexts. One of the biggest global supporters of sustainable mountain development of the past 20 years, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has commissioned a series of reports assessing progress and perspectives in selected mountain regions, including key regions in Central Asia, the Hindu Kush Himalayas, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa, the European Alps, South America and Meso-America. In addition, the Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) commissioned a report on the European Alps, and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) commissioned reports on mountain areas in Africa as well as in central, eastern and southeastern Europe. Thanks to an independent effort by committed partners in sustainable mountain development, a report on North American mountain areas was also prepared recently.
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. . . . - TOURISM IN MOUNTAIN REGIONS: HOPES, FEARS AND REALITIES. Sustainable Mountain Development Series This publication, featuring 28 case studies from many mountain regions, aims to provide an overview of the challenges -socio-cultural, socioeconomic, environmental and sociopolitical- of tourism in mountains and to shed light on the specific innovative strategies that mountain communities have developed to cope with challenges of tourism. It presents a set of lessons learned and recommendations to inform associations, policy-makers, development experts, businesses and academics who support the development of tourism in mountain areas. It aims to enable mountain communities to learn from each other’s experiences, gathering inspirational ideas from around the world that further promote sustainable forms of mountain tourism.
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. . . . - WHY MOUNTAINS MATTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND DISASTER RISK REDUCTION. A CALL FOR ACTION RISK REDUCTION: A CALL FOR ACTION ON THE SUSTAINABLA DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs) Sustaible mountain development should be a global priority given the multitud ecosystems goods and services provide. Theses ecosystem services are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and natural disaster yet there are direct consequences for downstream regions. Following the call for sustainable mountains development in Chapter 13 of Agenda 21. the action plan endorse by the Earth Summit (1992) and the recent Río+20. The Future We Want” mountains issues need to be covered by the SGDs, especially the goals concerning poverty, environmental sustability water, energy, climate change and natural disasters.
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World Mountain Forum 2014 