A new report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims that green building could be a key means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

According to the report by the world body’s leading climate change body, green buildings could play an essential role in any efforts to reduce the impact of anthropogenic global warming, particularly given projected gains in the emission levels of the international construction sector.

The construction sector, a key contributor to global warming is expected to undergo a doubling of energy consumption and related emissions by mid-century, across the globe, if it proceeds along its current path.

Speaking on Nigeria’s drive to promote green building in the nation’s construction sector, especially in the nation’s capital, Abuja, the director of development control department of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Mallam Yahaya Yusuf, said the administration had started a gradual sensitization drive for developers to embrace the relatively new concept in the Nigerian construction sector as it is more environmental friendly and promotes energy efficiency.

He said: “The process has just started but because it is a new idea in this part of the world we are in the sensitisation stage of the process; that is to say we enlighten people that this is to their own benefit, and you cannot be too hard at this stage, and then we will also categorize buildings that are easy targets that are easily malignable for such green building concept.

Culled from Leadership.ng

by Nkechi Issac – May 4, 2015