We listened to global policymakers last year at COP28 in Dubai. They seek to scale up investment in nature-based solutions but need to know how much these solutions cost and their economic benefits, said ASLA CEO Torey Carter-Conneen, Hon. ASLA.We now have some solid numbers that show landscape architects generate significant economic value through the way they design these solutions. But well also start an ambitious research agenda to calculate the economic benefits we currently cant measure.The ASLA Fund has released a new brief on the economic benefits of landscape architecture and nature-based solutions. The brief is developed for global and U.S. economic policymakers meeting at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Dr. Jennifer Egan, PhD, program manager, University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center (EFC) in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, developed the brief. The EFC received a grant from the ASLA Fund to develop this analysis, which summarizes findings from research literature, national and international reports, and 175 case studies.Read more in ASLA's THE DIRT: https://bit.ly/4en2ba8Image Credit: Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel, Seattle, Washington / MIG