2. Notes with appreciation that a growing network of Governments, organizations, major groups and individuals around the world recognize the importance of the sustainable development of mountain regions for poverty eradication, and recognizes the global importance of mountains as the source of most of the Earth's freshwater, as repositories of rich biological diversity and other natural resources, including timber and minerals, as providers of some sources of renewable energy, as popular destinations for recreation and tourism and as areas of important cultural diversity, knowledge and heritage, all of which generate positive, unaccounted economic benefits;
2. 赞赏地注意到世界各地越来越多的政府、组织、主要群体和个人认识到山区可持续发展对消除贫穷的重要性，并确认山区对全球的重要性，因为山区是地球大部分淡水的来源，是丰富生物多样性以及木材和矿物等其他自然资源的储存地，是一些可再生能源的提供者，是民众喜爱的休闲和旅游地，也是重要的文化多样性、知识和遗产区，所有这些都带来积极的未计经济利益；