The RIBA's 'Combating Climate Change' programme will help RIBA members, the institute and its staff to contribute towards addressing the challenge of climate change. There are four strands that make up the Combating Climate Change programme. These are:
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setting targets and providing an RIBA policy on climate change
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providing tools and guidance to our members
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changing the RIBA's own corporate behaviour, to reduce its carbon footprint and minimise its environmental impact
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campaigning to raise public awareness of climate change and the role played by buildings and their design
Providing climate change tools
The RIBA has launched the first three of a range of tools and guides to encourage and assist architects and others to understand the role that buildings play in climate change, and to provide a guide to the principles, tools and techniques to build low carbon buildings. To access the publications, please use the links below:
Climate change briefing|
Guide to Low Carbon Design Tools|
Guide to Low Carbon Standards and Assessment Methods|
RIBA Climate Change Policy
In December 2006 the RIBA agreed a Climate Change Policy.
Contraction and Convergence
Contraction and Convergence is the science-based, global climate-policy framework, proposed to the United Nations since 1990 by the Global Commons Institute.
www.gci.org.uk/|
It is already supported by many climate change scientists and policy makers, including the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
www.rcep.org.uk/energy.htm|
Contraction and Convergence involves a globally balanced approach to the stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations at safe levels, consistent with the aspirations of different communities to development and quality of life.
The RIBA has adopted Contraction and Convergence as the overarching policy to guide its targets for the reduction of GHG emissions associated with the use of energy in buildings.
Overview of RIBA Climate Change activity
For an overview of the RIBA's current climate change activity, please download the summary below: