2. Encourages all States, the United Nations system and all other actors to take advantage of the International Year of Mountains to ensure the present and future well-being of mountain communities by promoting conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas; to increase awareness and knowledge of mountain ecosystems, their dynamics and functioning, and their overriding importance in providing a number of crucial goods and services essential to the well-being of both rural and urban, highland and lowland people, in particular water supply, food security; and to promote and defend the cultural heritage of mountain communities and societies;
2. 鼓励所有国家、联合国系统和所有其他行动者利用国际山岳年，促进山区的养护和可持续发展，确保山地社区目前和将来的福址，进一步认识和了解各种山岳生态系统、它们的动态和功能以及它们在提供一些对农村和城市、高地和低地人民的福址必不可少的至关重要货物和服务、特别是供水、粮食安全方面的莫大重要性，促进和保护山地社区和社会的文化遗产；