CSLA Encourages Stronger Action on the Biodiversity Crisis

The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) Calls on Governments to Commit to a Better Relationship with Nature

The CSLA urges governments at the Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 in Montréal to commit to strengthened global conservation and biodiversity goals by protecting at least 30 percent of terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems by 2030 (30 x 2030). According to the United Nations, one-million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction, seventy-five percent of the Earth’s ice-free land surface and two-thirds of the oceans have been significantly altered by humanity. National governments must increase investment and support for ecosystem conservation and restoration and climate adaptation over the next decade.

In 2019 IFLA declared a Climate and Biodiversity Emergency. This declaration affirms landscape architects’ commitment to a significant, long-term shift in thinking, behaviour, policy. For almost 200 years, the profession of landscape architecture has sought to bridge the gap between the natural and the built environment by designing with nature.

Read their full statement here.