Green Roof Co2

Green roofs can be used as a passive technique to reduce co 2emissions from the atmosphere in urban surroundings because the green roof vegetation and soil layers can through the photosynthesis process capture co2 from the surroundings velasco and roth 2010.

Green roof co2.

Reduces the ambient temperature. Plants absorb sunlight 50 is absorbed and 30 reflected. So this helps to create a cooler and more pleasant climate. It takes seven years for the roof to offset the carbon used for its building materials and become truly carbon.

Greening conventional roofs requires special materials which come at a carbon cost. Like any forested or vegetation covered area a patch of green on top of a roof should theoretically lower levels of carbon dioxide in the air as well. Green roofs are considered effective in the reduction of atmospheric co2 because of their ability to reduce energy consumption of buildings and sequester carbon in plants and substrates. With a green roof you are contributing to air purification.