I strongly believe that design has a big role to play in process of adaptation and final state of the low carbon economy. Good design will help improve productivity and has financial benefits.
My own research work has been influenced by work of Christopher Alexander's Timeless Way of Building and The Nature of Order.
Architects Around the World Join Forces to Call for Copenhagen Commitment
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Australian Institute of Architects, Architecture Canada and the Commonwealth Association of Architects joined forces to deliver a 15 point "Call for Action" at next month's United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen (COP15, 7-18 December 2009) in an effort to lobby world leaders to deliver an ambitious and effective international response to climate change.
They identify a set of principles that should be familiar to people following climate change issues:
- Recognition of the fundamental importance of the built environment as central to the international climate change mitigation and adaptation agenda.
- Binding emissions targets and a carbon price to drive market change - a price on carbon reflecting the true consequences of its use and complementary government policies and incentives facilitating the competiveness of sustainable design.
- Credible and verified measurement of built environment emissions, being an international standard of accounting for carbon emissions.
- Innovative and pre-emptive design and adaptation of the built environment in response to unavoidable impacts of climate change.
- Partnerships between developing and developed economies to share information regarding sustainable design and technologies.
- Enabling policy - whether market mechanisms, government policy, private sector initiatives or voluntary action.
- Incentives to drive innovation and reward greater sustainability in the built environment.
- Investment in pilot projects to trial and demonstrate innovative approaches to built environment models.
- Risk management in the face of climate uncertainties - future scenarios, including the threat of peak oil and sea level rise, should be factored into the way built environments are conceived and planned.
- A concerted program to improve existing building stock to encourage positive change, including energy efficient refurbishment and retrofitting, as well sustainable design for new buildings.
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