Urban planners also have a role to play to prevent further climate change. It is possible for an urban planner to use planning and design policies to mitigate climate change. A great example of this is the recent French policy requiring every new building to have a green roof or solar panels (J.Richardson, 2015). Green roofing is helpful in reducing our impact on the environment as it absorbs some of the rainwater that falls on our roofing and this reduces stormwater runoff and decreases the amount of pollution entering our drainage system. It is also useful for absorbing carbon from the atmosphere (T.Matthews, pag.22,