Climate & Biodiversity Emergency Singapore, Landscape architecture by Grant Associates
Climate & Biodiversity Emergency
11 Nov 2020
Climate and biodiversity emergency News
Leading Singaporean landscape architects declare climate and biodiversity emergency
11th November 2020 – Leading Singaporean landscape architecture firms are calling on local and international landscape architects to act in response to climate change and biodiversity loss.
While the world is currently struggling with the current COVID Pandemic, the Climate & Biodiversity Emergency remains a critical global issue. There may be hope for an effective vaccine or treatment for the virus in the near future, but without collective global action, there are no similar prospects for solving the climate and biodiversity emergency.
Even if Singapore aspires to become a City in Nature, it is definitely not immune to the impact of the Climate Change and Biodiversity loss.Singapore Landscape Architects Declare is therefore asking for a collective action to confront the twin crisis as ?the most serious issue of our time?.
Members of the SG Landscape Architects Declare have pledged to design landscapes with a more positive impact on the environment, which should then be part of a larger self-sustaining system.
In a joint statement, the group commented: ?Whilst we have always regarded ourselves as stewards of the environment there is much more we can do. We, as landscape architects, are very well posi...