Message from our Mountains Network member Trevor Sandwith:

You may be pleased to know that our publication, a product of the PACT 2020 partnership, called Natural Solutions: Protected Areas helping people cope with Climate Change was just released at a news conference at the Copenhagen Climate Summit.  The press event was well attended. I presented the highlights from the book and then Veerle van der Weerd (UNDP Head of Environment); Ian Noble (World Bank Climate Change lead); Gordon Shepherd (WWF-International) and Ninni Ikkala (IUCN Climate Change co-ordinator) contributed as panellists. We had good questions and follow-up intertviews and the book is hot property here in Copenhagen!

 The news release follows, and the book itself is attached to this message and can also be downloaded at: http://cms.iucn.org/unfccc/events/copenhagen/?4329/Protected-areas--natural-solutions-to-climate-change-crisis

Download the report at and the summaries in  english french and spanish: http://www.iucn.org/about/union/commissions/wcpa/?4345/Natural-Solutions---Protected-Areas-Helping-people-cope-with-climate-change

Nik's OpEd in the New York Times and International Herald Tribune can be found at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/opinion/08iht-edlopoukhine.html

Please make every effort to disseminate the news about this book through your networks. With best wishes and thanks to everyone who has been involved in this effort.

--Trevor