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Climate and Biodiversity Emergency
Green Architecture Developments: Eco Design – Climate Change News
10 Jan 2020
Leading UK landscape architects declare climate and biodiversity emergency
Leading UK landscape architecture firms are calling on landscape architects around the world to act in response to climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.
UK Landscape Architects Declare, founded by 14 landscape architecture practices and individuals, is asking for collective action to confront the twin crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss as ?the most serious issue of our time?.
UK Landscape Architects Declare said in a statement: ?We know that we have just over a decade to address the twin crises of global climate heating and mass biodiversity loss, or we risk catastrophic damage to the natural world.? The group added: ?Meeting the needs of our society without breaching the earth?s ecological boundaries will demand a paradigm shift.?
Members of UK Landscape Architects Declare have pledged to design landscapes with a more positive impact on the environment, which should then be part of a larger self-sustaining system.
The idea is that a wide-ranging declaration of intent, followed by action, international cooperation, and knowledge sharing, will help facilitate this transformation.
The founding signatories of UK Landscape Architects Declare include Grant Associates, Gillespi...