The IPPC report on climate change is an eye-opener. To survive we need to change. The 1.5˚C temperature increase limit, set by the Paris Agreement, is likely to be breached by 2030, a decade earlier than previously predicted. The report sets out five scenarios. The most optimistic sees the global temperature overshooting the 1.5˚C target but dropping back to 1.4˚C by 2100. The worst-case scenario sees the world becoming 3.3˚C hotter than now by the end of the century. “What are we going to do about it, who is going to do it and when,” Ambassador Michael Zammit Cutajar asked (Times of Malta, August 10). The answer lies in the reduction of carbon emissions. It is high time that an ambitious plan be agreed at the international level to phase out fossil fuels by 2050 at the latest. Otherwise, we are heading for higher temperatures, more natural disasters, extreme weather conditions, flooding, rising sea levels, ocean warming and further destruction of our natural habitats. Hopefully, the forthcoming COP26 in Glasgow will produce some answers. The construction industry is one major contributor to global carbon emissions. Directly and indirectly it contributes to 40 per cent of such...