The ASLA sent three delegates to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, marking the fourth year that the organization has served as an NGO observer at the conference.

Made up of Meg Calkins, PLA, FASLA, FCELA; Marcelo Tomé Kubo, PhD, PLA; and Kotchakorn Voraakhom, PLA, IFLA, the delegation presented the recently released Landscape Architecture 2040: Climate & Biodiversity Action Plan and co-hosted a session titled "Shoreline to Skyline: Resilient Infrastructure, Buildings, and Coastal Planning for a Changing Climate." This session focused on nature-based solutions provided by Landscape Architects "increase resilience while maximizing the economic and other co-benefits of these solutions."

 
The delegates also participated in:
- Nature at Work: Advancing Climate Resilience through Ecosystem-Based Solutions
- Undoing the Damage, The Retrofit Urban Revolution with Nature: Action Pathways for Livable, Thriving, and Resilient Cities (IFLA)
- Sustainable Amphibious Home: Achieving 13 SDGs in Climate-Vulnerable Bangladesh
- Water As Leverage
- Paris at 10: The 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement

Ahead of the conference, ASLA CEO Torey Carter-Conneen declared: "This is the year when we need to scale up investment in nature-based solutions that increase our ability to adapt to climate change, create gains in biodiversity, and lead to economic growth."

He further posited Landscape Architects as the prime leaders in this endeavor as they "have proven ability to work with policymakers and communities to design these solutions to create stacked economic, ecosystem, social, and health benefits."

To read more about the ASLA COP30 delegation, go to: https://www.asla.org/NewsReleaseDetails.aspx?id=68065