Global Ethical Principles

As landscape professionals, our passion for the profession is universal. The Global Ethical Principles provide the foundation for raising and maintaining professional standards. The aim of these principles is to establish and promote global ethical best practice, as well as ensuring public confidence and trust in the landscape profession. Adherence to ethical standards is a key prerequisite for building trust and creating clarity – between clients, the public and landscape professionals, and across a global context.

Strong ethical principles also ‘future proof’ the profession and help to attract new talent into it. It would benefit all IFLA member associations to adhere to these principles and continue to build on the strong foundation of high professional standards, social responsibility, accountability and interdependence they promote.

The principles will be reviewed on an ongoing basis by IFLA in association with the Landscape Institute who prepared the initial draft with IFLA and conducted extensive consultation over a 2-year period prior to support by the IFLA World Council in 2019 at their Oslo meeting. It is anticipated that a full review of the principles will be conducted every 5 years to ensure they meet the current expectations, challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt.

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