Protected areas - natural solutions to climate change

Global organisations comprising the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), The Nature Conservancy, the United Nations Development Programme, Wildlife Conservation Society, the World Bank and WWF have released a new book that demonstrates how protecting nature helps protect our climate.

In the foreward for the book Sir Nicholas Stern, states that “This book, Natural Solutions: protected areas helping people cope with climate change, clearly articulates for the first time how protected areas contribute significantly to reducing the impacts of climate change and what’s needed for them to achieve even more,”

The book presents some staggering facts. For example, did you know that Fifteen percent of the world’s terrestrial carbon stock - 312 Gigatonnes – is stored in protected areas around the world?

The book was released to raise the profile of maintaining and enhancing protected areas in both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biodiversity as a powerful natural climate change solution.

The Wilderness Society would like to recommend this new publication to our members and the wider community who are interested in helping to protect nature to assist in global efforts to limit climate change.

The full book can be downloaded here
http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/natural_solutions.pdf