Urbanisation is playing significant role in climate change

In the last few decades global warming has jumped from the obscurity of science journals to the front pages of newspapers, and ultimately environmental concerns have emerged as one of the alarming stories of the era.The growing urbanization has stimulated the local climate change in the entire world. Urbanization is one direct cause which is contributing significantly towards our climate change and could be managed through available compliance and standards.However, recently climate change concerns received wider recognition and acceptance with the emergence of green building conceptualization amongst the developers in India.

* Courtesy IPCC

Statistics state that the residential, commercial, and institutional buildings sector accounted for about one-third of the global energy used and roughly one-third of the associated CO2 emissions in above chart*. The commercial sector is considerably more heterogeneous than residential buildings, encompassing hospitals, schools, offices, enclosed malls and restaurants. Each of it having a unique energy use.