The IFLA Climate Change and Biodiversity Working Group has made a call to IFLA Member Associations to support the IFLA collaboration with UN National Adaptation Plan (UN NAP)
The IFLA Climate Change and Biodiversity Working Group has made a call to IFLA Member Associations to support the IFLA collaboration with UN National Adaptation Plan (UN NAP). You can read their letter to IFLA Member Associations below:
Dear Delegates and fellow landscape architects
As landscape architects, we are champions of Nature-based Solutions. It is now time for us to amplify our impact and implementation in all regions and conditions as we are currently collaborating with the UN National Adaptation Plan (UN NAP), aiming to help regions and localities become resilient and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Society needs new approaches to decision-making, progressive policies, and a universal commitment to innovative ideas. It is now time for each national member to submit exemplary projects, including design-build best practices and cultural landscape architecture that embodies practices of the wisdom of the land that are relevant to tackling the climate crisis together.
It is now time to Act. IFLA is asking for your support and your commitment to actions. All results from this will flourish with our president and all delegates in our next World Council and World Congress in Turkey in 2024.
Action 1: What is a commitment that your national association will commit to with IFLA and all national members that will be completed in 1 year?
Action 2: Please share a selected landscape architect climate champion from your jurisdiction and their effect on climate adaptation activities. We may then invite them to be part of our IFLA Climate Change and Biodiversity Webinar, the annual webinar that our working group hosts.
Action 3: Could you share one of your nation’s landscape architecture-built best practices, projects, or cultural landscape strategies from your jurisdiction that IFLA can feature and apply to be part of UN landscape architecture Nature-based adaptation implementation guidelines?
Through our partnership with UN NAP, we will select and include best practices from around the world to acknowledge the power of landscape architecture as a tool for tackling climate change.
Thank you for your kind consideration and collaboration. This is an urgent issue and we appreciate your committed actions. Please provide documentation regarding all 3 of your actions in this link.
Please submit before the 30th of November 2023 to your regional climate and biodiversity chairs. Stay tuned for further information and we look forward to working with you.
With our commitment to Action,
The IFLA Climate Change and Biodiversity Working Group
Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Chairwoman of IFLA Climate Biodiversity Working Group
Pamela Conrad, Vice Chairwoman of IFLA Climate Biodiversity Working Group
Claire Martin, Chairwoman of IFLA Asia Pacific Climate Biodiversity Working Group
Tony Williams, Chairman of IFLA Europe Climate Biodiversity Working Group
Farimah Jamali, Chairwoman of IFLA Middle East Climate Biodiversity Working Group
Raquel Peñalosa, Chairwoman of IFLA America Climate Biodiversity Working Group
Tamsin Faragher, Chairwoman of IFLA Africa Climate Biodiversity Working Group