Carbon Trading and City Planning

How can carbon trading be used as a potential urban planning tool? Raoul Bunschoten, director of CHORA architecture and urbanism, will discuss the potential of linking the global carbon market, its traders and urban planning across a city or region. Large-scale carbon reduction requires urban planning at the widest possible level. Incubators or test zones of technology, policy and best practice have been developed in certain regions of the world, including those initiated by Raoul in China and Taiwan. CHORA was also part of a consortium (led by East) working on the Green Enterprise District, a project for a low carbon economy incubator in the Thames Gateway commissioned by the London Development Agency. Raoul is a senior lecturer at the London Metropolitan University, Professor of Urban Systematics at the University of Applied Science in Düsseldorf and advisor to the Bund Deutscher Architekten on sustainable city planning and energy efficiency in city design. Book tickets for RIBA events at architecture.com/programmes. Tickets are £8.50/£5.50; advance booking essential. Alternatively leave a message on our recorded booking line 020 7307 3699.