News & knowledge on carbon removals, the CDR market and timber construction

14 Sep 2026

Timber Carbon at The District 2026, Madrid

The District brings Europe's real estate capital to IFEMA Madrid from 22 to 24 September. Find us at stand 6G502 in hall 6, and at the Discovery Theatre on Tuesday at 12:15 for our talk on carbon removals as an asset.

09 Sep 2026

Reusing structural timber: what Google's hangar project shows

Google salvaged 178 tonnes of Douglas fir from a 1943 airship hangar and spent a year in laboratories reconstructing what the wood could still carry. The data that was missing there is data a documented timber building already has.

27 Aug 2026

The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future

At 84 metres, Mjøstårnet in Norway is the world's tallest all-timber building, assembled from precision-cut glulam like flat-pack furniture at almost a floor per week. The Guardian's long read traces how it was built and works through the questions that follow any move to timber at scale: fire safety, insurance, and the 16,000 trees it took.

25 Aug 2026

Timber Carbon at SIBCA 2026, Paris

SIBCA gathers the French low-carbon property sector at the Grand Palais from 1 to 3 September. Find us at stand F5 across all three days, and hear Elodie Vignon on Thursday afternoon in salle Clémenceau.

15 Jun 2026

Near-Zero Emission and Resilient Buildings

A global definition of what a near-zero emission and resilient building is, agreed under the Buildings Breakthrough and aimed at making such buildings the norm by 2030.

15 Jun 2026

Sustainable Wood: Climate-Friendly Cities

A short film on what changes when a city is built from timber: the carbon stays locked in the structure, emission intensive materials are displaced, and the built environment becomes an extension of the forest.

11 Jun 2026

SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard, Version 2.0

The first full revision of the SBTi's net-zero standard turns target setting into an implementation framework, with new target options across all three scopes, a hierarchy for what counts as credible action, and a formal role for carbon credits.

03 Nov 2025

Measuring and trading the stored carbon in your timber building

A Timber Development UK webinar on measuring the carbon in a finished timber building, having it verified and making it tradable. With Andrew Cowan of One Click LCA and Naim Solh of Timber Carbon.

03 Jan 2025

The forest-to-building pump: how construction becomes a carbon sink

In a new-year interview with Tages-Anzeiger, climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber describes what he calls the forest-to-building pump: fast-growing trees and grasses capture carbon that the construction sector then locks into structural timber and furniture for the long term. The sector behind almost 40 per cent of global carbon emissions could become a sink instead.