Landscape Architects Form Task Force to Scale Up Solutions to the Climate and Biodiversity Crises

This article was written by Jared Green and originally appeared on ASLA’s The Dirt.

Led by leaders in the field of landscape architecture, ASLA is developing an updated, profession-wide Climate and Biodiversity Action Plan.

ASLA is announcing the experts that will develop its new Climate and Biodiversity Action Plan for the landscape architecture community. The five-member Task Force and 33-member Advisory Group of climate and biodiversity leaders from the landscape architecture profession will guide this effort. The new plan will be released at the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture, October 10-13, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The new plan will be an update to the ASLA Climate Action Plan, which was released in 2022, and offer new goals and actions for 2026-2030. The scope of the new plan has been expanded – the climate and biodiversity crises will be treated as equal priorities, and the focus will be on actions that tackle both crises in an equitable way.

The ambitious plan seeks to transform the practice of landscape architecture by 2040 through actions taken by ASLA and its members focused on biodiversity and ecological restoration, climate mitigation and adaptation, equity, and economic development.

Meg Calkins, FASLA, Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, NC State University, has been named Chair of the Task Force.