Tag: carbon storage

• Position paper – No shortcuts for carbon storage in products

  Our latest position paper critically assesses the risks and opportunities for managing carbon emissions and storing carbon in construction timber and concrete. Before storage-based incentives, we recommend EU policymakers focus existing policies on defining and incentivising sustainable timber and low-carbon cement and concrete through circular and sustainable sourcing measures, effectively achieving the same environmental goal without venturing into tricky accounting.

• Seeing the forest through the trees: how can wood buildings be truly green?

  Wood is one of the longest-standing building materials in human history. Although the use of steel, concrete, or iron has brought significant advances to construction, wood is now enjoying newfound popularity.