Green roofs and walls can provide a myriad of energy benefits, from moderating heat through the building envelope, to improving solar PV efficiency, to reducing the urban heat island, and more. A new report provides an exhaustive summary and literature review of these benefits and how designers can maximize them on their projects.

Living architecture also offers us an opportunity to right historical environmental injustices and meaningfully engage the communities in which these projects are built. We can leverage green roof and wall investments to achieve not just environmental and economic goals - but also social ones.

Living architecture offers immense promise as a part of a climate strategy, with green roofs and walls offering the ability to help mitigate against climate change and also adapt to its impacts.