Practice
CBAC: Subcommittee Initiatives (2024-2025)
Carbon Drawdown Subcommittee
- Equip industry partners for alignment with Climate Action Plan decarbonization goals. Scale-up use of robust environmental product data and collaboration with product manufacturers.
- Educate ASLA members on renewable energy.
- Update and add sections to Decarbonizing Specifications: A Guide for Landscape Architects, Specifiers, and Industry Partners
- Advocate for Horticultural Life Cycle Assessment / Environmental Product Declaration (LCA/EPD) reporting standards for the nursery trade and an associated product category rule
- Finalize recommended carbon workflow and standardized reporting
- Investigate biodiversity and carbon reporting requirements for ASLA Awards submissions
Biodiversity Subcommittee
- Develop a biodiversity action resource for ASLA members
- Process 2024 biodiversity survey results
- Curate a biodiversity presence at the ASLA Conference
- Support ASLA’s webinar series by developing biodiversity sessions
- Advise on program and communication strategies for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity
- Advance the global movement to protect at least 30 percent of terrestrial, coastal, and ocean ecosystems by 2030 (30x30).
- Coordinate involvement of ASLA members in IUCN expert commissions
- Communicate the importance of taking action on biodiversity to the public
Leadership & Communications Subcommittee
- Achieve 38 ASLA Chapter Chairs / Committees by 2025
- Achieve 100 percent Chapter representation in the ASLA Climate Action Network (CAN) by 2025
- Update CAN resources
- Advance academic collaboration within the CAN
- Advise on development of climate and biodiversity sections of new ASLA.org
- Advise on ASLA climate and biodiversity communications strategies
- Identify priority global partner organizations
- Expand collaboration with the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA)
Climate Agency & Community Resilience Subcommittee
- Build on initial strategy and plan for ASLA collaboration with
Indigenous landscape architects on climate action, equity, and justice.
Identify partnership opportunities and build relationships with Native
members and organizations.
- Develop summary of 2024 survey results
- Organize and release case studies collected through the survey
- Develop 101 document for ASLA members on climate equity and justice principles and best practices from existing publications
Subcommittee Initiatives (2023-2024)
Subcommittee Initiatives (2022-2023)
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