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Concurrent Education Session

SUN-B06: Climate Action Planning (The Verb): Promising Practices for Climate-positive Work

Sunday, October 6, 2024
10:15am – 11:30am ET
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 145AB
1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, ISA, NY/HSW, FL

The urgency of the biodiversity and climate crises requires fast and strategic response. Climate action won’t happen on its own: firms must create roadmaps to operationalize and implement climate action. This session explores approaches and provides lessons in creating climate action plans at three firms of differing sizes and geographies.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Contextualize the work of landscape architects in the face of the dual climate and biodiversity crises.
  • Explain the value of creating a strategic document (climate action plan, sustainability action plan, project performance plan) to operationalize climate action, and what it means to “operationalize climate action.”
  • Describe strategies for a successful climate action planning process for your firm that encourages participation, builds excitement, and establishes a vision.
  • Understand ideas for implementing climate action, such as what and how to track, how to encourage internal leadership, and how to address and close common skill gaps.