IFLA Working Programme 03 - Climate Action

Goal: Develop and implement landscape-based solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation, including strategies for carbon sequestration, urban heat island reduction, and climate-resilient design.

Impact: Reduce the impacts of climate change, promote carbon sequestration and create more resilient communities

Working Programme Members

Director - Tamsin Faragher

Tamsin works at the City of Cape Town in South Africa as a Principal Resilience Officer. She's a landscape architect, designer, policymaker and strategist, researcher, author and mentor. Tamsin relentlessly pushes the professional boundaries to make cities livable, resilient and climate adaptive. She has a bachelors in architectural studies and two master's degrees - n landscape architecture and infrastructure design and management, both from the University of Cape Town.

Co-director - Jane Welsh

Shulin Shi currently works at the department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture Tsinghua University, Beijing PRC. Her research areas include health promoting landscape planning and design, landscape for the elderly, landscape for active living, quantitative social research, and qualitative social research. She has a PhD in division of Landscape Architecture from the University of Hong Kong.

Other members of the Working Programme

Blake Creamer

Carlos Bueno

Daniel Jauslin

Hannah Ismail

Haris Piplas

Katarzyna Solarek-Pancic

Ricardo da Cruz e Sousa

Sourav Kumar Biswas