Dear SDLers,
I wanted to share that Canadian Architectural Professionals declared a Climate and Biodiversity Emergency and Committed to Urgent and Sustained Action. The declaration was launched last Friday as part of a week of events surrounding the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. Like others around the world, the week of global action includes strikes on September 20 and September 27 in Canada, where students and adults are taking to the streets to demand climate action.
The declaration is a grassroots effort developed by architects across the country and members of the RAIC Committee on Regenerative Environments (CORE). It is based on the UK’s Architects Declare initiative. After just a few days there are already at least 69 firms signed on and the list is growing every day.
Here are the pages where the info lives:
Declaration: https://ca.architectsdeclare.com/
Media release: https://raic.org/news/day-global-climate-strike-canadian-architects-commit-action-climate-crisis
Designing for the future: https://raic.org/raic/designing-future
Declaration: https://raic.org/news/canadian-architectural-professionals-declare-climate-and-biodiversity-emergency-and-commit
The next step for the Committee on Regenerative Environments is a Special Resolution on Climate Change for adoption at the RAIC's AGM in October.
Cheers, Mona
