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Mt. Pulog - Highest Mountain in Luzon, Philippines
INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE MOUNTAINS
(IYM)
For Millenia, mountains have served as vast reserves of valuable resources such as water, energy and biological diversity and as key centers of culture and recreation. However, due to rapid globalization. urbanization and mass tourism, mountains are threatened including its communities and resources, including the increasing marginalization, economic decline and environmental degradation
In 1998, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2002 as the International Year of the Mountains to increase international awareness on the global importance of the mountain ecosystems and provide adequate political, institutional and financial commitment to concrete action for sustainable
mountain development. IYM is the outcome of the Agenda 21 of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which concern with the management of the fragile ecosystem and sustainable development of the mountain thereby equally treating it with global issues on climate change, tropical deforestation and desertification. IYM serve as a catalyst for long-term, sustained and concrete actions that extends beyond 2002.
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