The SSoA must recognise the severity and urgency of the current climate emergency we face. The school must also acknowledge their role in the education of its students to work within this future context.

Action must follow recognition. Cultural and behavioural change is required at both the institutional and individual levels. The SSoA, students and staff must acknowledge and be honest about the individual impact of our daily practices within the school as well as our personal lives. We should work together in a  communal act and not in conflict with each other. The issue of climate change is better addressed collectively, not individually. 

Education is a powerful and vital tool in the fight against climate change. SSoA should ensure all students leave their education with the knowledge and tools to produce truly sustainable and environmentally focused designs. Sustainability must be less of a specialism, but an element of our everyday work. Students should have the tools to advocate for greater urgency in the climate crisis which can be used in future years of practice. 

A wealth of climate emergency information and knowledge exists within our university and our city. A centralised and accessible platform for the distribution of this work is required within the university, reaching beyond our institution and into the public realm.

We must adopt an intersectional approach to addressing climate change and acknowledge that the threats of ecological breakdown vary in intensity depending on class, race, gender and geography. We must also recognize the benefits of creating an open and non-discriminatory space in which to come together in a collective endeavour to lessen our environmental impacts as a society, a school and as individuals