Our Call to Action: IFLA’s COP30 Brazil Position Statement

Our Call to Action: IFLA’s COP30 Brazil Position Statement

IFLA proudly announces the release of its COP30 Position Statement, “A Call to Action for COP30: Putting Landscape at the Heart of Climate Action.”

This statement confronts the climate and biodiversity crisis as a fundamental "failure of design", a result of human systems built in conflict with natural ones. We assert that a viable future is impossible unless "LANDSCAPE MUST COME FIRST", as it is the foundational operating system for all life.

We urge global leaders and financiers to move beyond siloed, carbon-only targets and instead: Integrate Landscape as Critical Infrastructure, implementing concepts like "Sponge Cities" to build urban water resilience.

• Empower Integrators and Indigenous Knowledge, recognising landscape architects as essential collaborators who can unite ecology, policy, and community co-creation, guided by Traditional Ecological Knowledge.

• Finance the Foundation, recognising that healthy landscapes are the most cost-effective and durable form of climate infrastructure.

We are at COP30 as the implementers and system-thinkers ready to turn climate ambition into an on-the-ground reality.

Read the full statement here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z5yU1J19pQa_MhPrxSgUiOzxpi1Alf0_/view