AILA's Climate Positive Design Guidelines

As stewards of the environment, landscape architects must advocate for climate positive outcomes, extending the current approach of carbon neutral outcomes.

Climate positive design projects provide net positive climate outcomes. They also provide environmental, social, cultural, and economic co-benefits. Over a cradle to cradle, design life assessment, they sequester more greenhouse gases than they emit.

To embrace Climate Positive Design, there are three key things Landscape Architects can to do:

• Understand the environmental and carbon impacts of what we do through evidence-based research.

• Manage and mitigate these impacts through good planning and design.

• Advocate and educate for better understanding of carbon neutral and climate positive design with our clients, colleagues, collaborators, stakeholders and Government.

So that Australian Landscape Architects can be part of the solution, AILA has developed a series of three guideline documents. Find them here.