ASLA has released a new, updated plan — Landscape Architecture 2040: Climate & Biodiversity Action Plan — builds on their progress and guides the profession into the future. The plan seeks to address the climate and biodiversity crises together and builds upon the ASLA Climate Action Plan released in 2022.
The updated plan sets important new targets for realizing ASLA’s 2040 vision, establishing an ambitious set of benchmarks to meet by 2030 in the areas of biodiversity, greenhouse gas emission reductions, carbon sequestration, adaptation, economic benefits, and climate and biodiversity justice. The plan will be accomplished over the next five years – from 2026 to 2030. It has one volume for landscape architects and another for ASLA and ASLA chapter.
Both volumes are organized around four key goals:
- Climate: Scale up climate positive approaches
- Biodiversity: Protect, conserve, restore, enhance and manage
- Equity: Amplify the power of people and communities
- Advocacy: Advance climate and biodiversity action through leadership and engagement
“Our new plan represents a major shift. We know that the problems and solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises are intertwined. So, we have developed an ambitious plan for addressing both crises – through landscape architecture,” said ASLA President Kona Gray, FASLA, PLA.
The ASLA Plan for members is available at https://www.asla.org/planforaslamembers.aspx