Abstract
Out of the numerous challenges facing mankind globally, the impact of climate change poses more threat. These
impacts include sea-level rise, more frequent floods from heavy rainfall and notably among others, intense droughts.
Despite the United Nations anchored events and conferences geared towards tackling climate change, little success
has been recorded till date. Biomimicry, a novel science and method that studies nature’s models and then emulates
their forms, processes, and strategies offer a sustainable approach to this menace of climate change. It also has the
potential to offer efficient alternatives to the human activities that contribute to the depletion and pollution of the
environment. Hence, the objective of this paper is to evaluate and present the potential of biomimicry in for climate
change mitigation in the built environment. An extant literature review was conducted on biomimicry and its roles in
tackling climate change through mitigation and adaptation. The result explores various Biomimetic innovations and
applications with their potential to sustainably mitigate the menace of climate change if adopted. This study is
expected to refocus human efforts towards biomimicry where it is believed that nature, during its 3.8 billion years of
existence has evolved with highly efficient processes and systems, with the potential to produce solutions to the
environmental challenges facing mankind, especially climate change.