Support the Vision and Goals of the ASLA Climate Action Plan

"ASLA has developed its first Climate Action Plan in the spirit of great optimism. We envision communities becoming healthier and economically stronger because they have committed to drawing down carbon, restoring ecosystems and increasing biodiversity, and reducing reliance on vehicles – all while ensuring everyone in their community has equitable access to these benefits." -- ASLA President Eugenia Martin, FASLA, and ASLA CEO Torey Carter-Conneen

 

Vision for 2040:
 
 All landscape architecture projects will simultaneously: 

  • Achieve zero embodied and operational emissions and increase sequestration
  • Provide significant economic benefits in the form of measurable ecosystem services, health co-benefits, sequestration, and green jobs
  • Address climate injustices, empower communities, and increase equitable distribution of climate investments
  • Restore ecosystems and protect, conserve, and enhance biodiversity

Goals:

  • Practice: Scale up Climate Positive Approaches 
  • Equity: Empower Communities 
  • Advocacy: Build Coalitions


Initiatives: 

  • Carbon Drawdown: Achieve zero emissions and double sequestration by 2040
  • Climate Resilience: Enhance capacity, biodiversity, and resilience of liveable cities and communities 
  • Climate Agency: Advocate for climate justice and social well-being 
  • Cultural Empowerment: Learn from cultural knowledge systems and practices of care
  • Climate Leadership: Galvanize climate champions
  • Global Alliance: Advance the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and expand international collaboration 


By 2025, these goals will be advanced through 21 objectives and 71 actions. 


Goals and actions will be revisited and updated in 2025 and every five years until 2040 and beyond.


Learn more at www.asla.org/climate 


Donate today by choosing your level at the right.  


If you prefer, you can send a check, payable to ASLA Fund to:


ASLA Fund
636 I Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001-3735


Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.


Thank you for your support.

The ASLA Fund is the 501(c)(3) charitable foundation of the American Society of Landscape Architects, supported by the tax-deductible contributions of ASLA members and other individuals and organizations, and committed to the careful stewardship and artful design of our cultural and natural environment. ASLA Fund is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law. No goods or services were provided by ASLA in return for this contribution.

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