The 2ºC difference

Green buildings serve a vital role in reducing temperatures by up to 2°C, but what happens if global temperatures actually increase by that amount?

The Paris Agreement, ratified in 2015 by 196 countries, was designed to combat this very issue, to keep the rise in global temperature below 2°C and strive for a limit of 1.5°C by 2050. However, at the current rate of climate change, experts warn that this threshold could be breached in just over 20 years.