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20 Oct 2026
International launch of the world's first AI-powered infrastructure for carbon removals in the building sector
Timber Carbon is launching the first AI-powered infrastructure for carbon removal in the building sector. For the first time, the carbon locked in a building becomes a tradable asset.
19 Oct 2026
Webinar - Carbon removal in buildings: what it means for real estate
Save the date: on 8 December 2026, Frank Vasek and Lukas Fehr look at what carbon removals mean for real estate. Lunch webinar, online and in English.
19 Oct 2026
Potential contribution of biogenic materials in new and renovated buildings towards carbon budgets and storage in Switzerland
The ETH Zurich and HES-SO team tests four Swiss residential buildings. More biobased materials cut embodied emissions by up to 40 % and bring 2030 carbon budgets within reach in three of four cases.
18 Oct 2026
Potential for biogenic carbon storage towards a net-zero built environment in Switzerland
Researchers from ETH Zurich and HES-SO model the Swiss residential building stock up to 2050 and beyond. By mid-century, buildings could take up 2.5 Mt CO₂ of biogenic carbon per year, almost as much as their yearly embodied emissions.
16 Oct 2026
Rencontres de l'EDC 2026: where carbon removal is heading
Our takeaways from two days in Paris at AFEN's Rencontres de l'élimination du carbone: buyers think in portfolios, compliance demand is coming and the removal gap is large.
15 Oct 2026
Timber Carbon at Carbon Unbound Europe 2026, London
Carbon Unbound Europe brings the carbon removal market to London on 20 and 21 October. Meet Frank Vasek and Tim Träger at the Timber Carbon stand at Convene, 22 Bishopsgate.
15 Oct 2026
Adjustments in the third quarter of 2026: rebalancing of the Timber Finance Carbon Capture & Storage Index
In Holzkurier, Erik Reichmuth explains why the Timber Finance Carbon Capture & Storage Index edged lower in summer 2026 and what the rebalancing changes.
13 Oct 2026
Built by Nature Summit 2026: cities are ready to build in timber
Our takeaways from the Built by Nature Summit in Barcelona: cities from Barcelona to Amsterdam are adapting public procurement to timber and bio-based materials.
30 Sep 2026
Timber Carbon at EXPO REAL 2026, Munich
EXPO REAL brings the real estate and investment industry to Messe München from 5 to 7 October. Find us at stand A3.TB35 in hall A3, on the Inside Innovation panel on Tuesday at 10:00 and at the Tech Talk Stage at 13:30.
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.
14 Sep 2026
The future of timber investments
In the Finanzblog of Schweizer Holzrevue, Nina Lustenberger and Thomas Richter of ZHAW show why capital and the forestry and timber sector still struggle to find each other.
10 Sep 2026
More opportunities for timber on the capital market
Holzkurier introduces the ESG Timber Score: a ZHAW study with Timber Finance rates listed timber companies by their contribution to timber construction and carbon removals.
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
In a Guardian Long Read, James Crawford visits the Mjøstårnet timber tower in Norway and asks what it would take for timber to replace concrete in our cities.
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.
15 Jun 2026
New: the Minergie net zero label and timber construction
Andreas Primavesi, Managing Director of Minergie, explains in the Finanzblog of Schweizer Holzrevue how the Minergie net zero label works and why timber construction benefits.
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.
16 Mar 2026
An investor perspective on the forestry and timber sector
A ZHAW investor survey supported by Timber Finance shows that 71 percent see the carbon removed in timber buildings as significant and 53 percent plan to invest more.
22 Dec 2025
Timber window manufacturer modernises along ecological lines
Holzbau Austria profiles window maker Kapo, which is building its new site in Hartberg in timber. Together with Timber Finance, the building could generate carbon removal 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.
20 Oct 2025
Carbon removal credits: a new sales tool for timber builders
In the Finanzblog of Schweizer Holzrevue, Frank Vasek shows how carbon removal credits give timber builders a new sales argument and turn timber buildings into an additional asset.
16 Oct 2025
Adjustments in the third quarter of 2025: Timber Finance Carbon Capture & Storage Index
In Holzkurier, Erik Reichmuth explains why timber stocks fell in 2025 despite record equity markets and which regulation supports timber construction in the long run.
15 Sep 2025
Timber construction from the perspective of building insurance
In the Finanzblog of Schweizer Holzrevue, Stefan Dürig, CEO of the Bern building insurance GVB, explains why timber buildings have paid lower premiums since 2025.
02 Sep 2025
Carbon removal credits for timber construction promote sawlog production
In the Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, Thomas Fedrizzi maps carbon approaches along the timber chain and shows how credits from timber buildings also strengthen forests.
04 Aug 2025
Timber is on trend: but who is financing the growth?
In the Finanzblog of Schweizer Holzrevue, Thomas Richter of ZHAW shows that 47 percent of timber companies expect growth and around 40 percent a financing bottleneck.
18 Jun 2025
Reversing the climate crisis
Hochparterre compares carbon removal approaches in construction, from biochar in concrete to timber buildings, and looks at the strengths and open questions of Timber Finance's model.
16 Jun 2025
Timber construction stocks through the tariff storm
In the Finanzblog of Schweizer Holzrevue, Stefano Charrey of Timber Finance shows how tariffs and interest rates weigh on North American timber stocks while Europe catches up.
05 May 2025
New: the Timber Startup Incubator
In the Finanzblog of Schweizer Holzrevue, Stefan Zöllig introduces the Timber Startup Incubator, which supports timber start-ups from the first idea to early growth.
24 Apr 2025
Rebalancing in the first quarter of 2025: Europe catches up
In Holzkurier, Stefano Charrey analyses the rebalancing of the Timber Finance Carbon Capture & Storage Index: North America under pressure, European small caps strong.
17 Mar 2025
Decarbonising buildings: timber keeps its edge
In the Finanzblog of Schweizer Holzrevue, Stefano Charrey compares timber with mineralised concrete, and Thomas Fedrizzi shows how timber and concrete work together in construction.
13 Mar 2025
Results for the fourth quarter of 2024: high roundwood prices and tariff uncertainty
In Holzkurier, Stefano Charrey reviews the results of the companies in the Timber Finance Index: strong forest divisions in the Nordics, tariff risk in North America.
20 Feb 2025
Decarbonising buildings: does timber keep its edge?
In Holzkurier, Stefano Charrey compares timber with low-carbon concrete. A recent study suggests timber construction stays competitive on carbon and cost in the medium term.
13 Jan 2025
Timber: “The Hidden Champion of Sustainable Finance”
In the yearbook Nachhaltiges Investment Schweiz 2025, Thomas Fedrizzi explains why the timber construction chain is unique for investors and which products Timber Finance has launched.
06 Jan 2025
An equity index for the timber construction industry
In the Finanzblog of Schweizer Holzrevue, Stefano Charrey and Thomas Fedrizzi introduce the Timber Finance Carbon Capture & Storage Index, which tracks the timber construction value chain.
03 Jan 2025
Reaching net zero with timber
In the Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, Peter Greminger explains why Switzerland should use more of its own timber to build in a climate-neutral way.
03 Jan 2025
The forest-construction pump: how the building sector can become a carbon sink
In the Tages-Anzeiger's year-end interview, climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber explains how forests and timber construction can pump carbon from the atmosphere into buildings.
23 Dec 2024
Forest, city and their carbon cycle: Quantification of the carbon impact of different construction types for Schumacher Quartier, Berlin
A one-year study led by Galina Churkina at TU Berlin quantifies the carbon impact of different construction types for Berlin's Schumacher Quartier, comparing mineral, light-frame timber and mass timber structures. It gives planners comparable figures for the choice of construction method at neighbourhood scale.
02 Dec 2024
Survey of the Swiss timber industry: growth and financing
In the Finanzblog of Schweizer Holzrevue, Thomas Richter of ZHAW introduces a survey on financing the timber sector, and Thomas Fedrizzi gives an example of a direct investment.
01 Dec 2024
How carbon removal credits for timber construction support sawlog production
In Bündner Wald, Thomas Fedrizzi explains how carbon removal credits from timber buildings also strengthen forests: part of the revenue goes back into sawlog production.
01 Dec 2024
Carbon removal credits for timber construction: a new instrument for timber engineers
In Lignarius, the journal of the Swiss Timber Engineers, Timber Finance presents carbon removal credits for timber construction. Around 20 timber projects are taking part in the pilot phase.
14 Nov 2024
An equity index focused on timber construction
In Holzkurier, Stefano Charrey and Thomas Fedrizzi present the Timber Finance Carbon Capture & Storage Index: its structure, selection criteria and composition.
14 Nov 2024
Results for the third quarter of 2024: signs of normalisation
In Holzkurier, Stefano Charrey reviews the quarterly results of the companies in the Timber Finance CC&S Index: a weak construction market, steadier lumber prices and a setback for mass timber.
07 Nov 2024
Timber construction as an investment opportunity
In a guest article in Handelszeitung, Thomas Fedrizzi explains why the timber construction chain appeals to investors and what role carbon removal credits play.
21 Oct 2024
Timber construction enters the mortgage market thanks to carbon removal credits
Launching the Finanzblog in Schweizer Holzrevue, Thomas Fedrizzi presents the timber construction mortgage: banks swap an interest discount for carbon removal credits.
10 Oct 2024
Europe's housing crisis: an opportunity for timber construction?
In Holzkurier, Stefano Charrey analyses the slump in building permits in Germany, France and Finland and explains why timber construction can benefit in the medium term.
04 Oct 2024
“The construction and finance sectors need to work more closely together”
In the TEC21 special issue “Stadt aus Holz”, Thomas Fedrizzi and ZHAW professor Thomas Richter discuss how financial instruments can support timber construction, including a timber mortgage.
16 Sep 2024
The timber industry and timber buildings could become very attractive for the financial market
Schweizer Holzrevue profiles Timber Finance: Thomas Fedrizzi and Stefan Zöllig want to bring in the financial sector as the “missing link” for timber construction.
13 Sep 2024
Webinar: Holzbauhypothek & CO2-Speicherzertifikate
Two levers that change the numbers on a timber project: a mortgage that rewards the use of wood with a lower interest rate, and revenue from carbon storage certificates. The webinar explains both, including the Timber Mortgage feasibility study.
28 Aug 2024
Timber Finance: decarbonising buildings with carbon removal credits now possible for the first time
Moneycab reports on the launch of the pilot phase: with carbon removal credits, developers can monetise the climate performance of their timber buildings for the first time.
22 Aug 2024
How the construction industry contributes to a climate-neutral future
In its Green Economy supplement, Handelszeitung looks at how the cement industry, Neustark, low-tech approaches and Timber Finance aim to improve the carbon balance of buildings.
19 Aug 2024
Timber Finance shakes up the carbon credit market
In Zürcher Wald 4/2024, Martin Widmer profiles Timber Finance: its tracker certificate, the pilot phase for carbon removal credits with 20 timber buildings and the involvement of forest owners.
09 Aug 2024
Milwaukee wants to build the world's tallest timber skyscraper (again)
Popular Science reports on plans for a timber tower of up to 55 storeys in Milwaukee that would far exceed the current record holder, Ascent.
25 Jul 2024
Milwaukee aims high again
Holzkurier reports on two timber high-rise projects in Milwaukee: the 32-storey “The Edison” and an even taller scheme at the Marcus Center.
24 Jun 2024
3, 2, 1 Zukunft!
Frank Vasek on the building sector as a climate lever: why timber is the effective alternative to concrete and steel, and what it takes in forestry, processing and capital for that to work at scale.
20 Jun 2024
Major developers find mass timber buildings lease faster
In Bisnow, Hines and Howard Hughes report fast leasing and premium rents in their mass timber buildings, while the cost premium over steel and concrete keeps falling.
17 Jun 2024
Investing in forests and timber: an investment theme becomes a trend
In an advertorial in BauernZeitung, Erik Reichmuth explains how Timber Finance's listed tracker certificate invests in the forestry and timber industry.
08 Mar 2024
Building even better with timber: pilot phase opens to Liechtenstein
In March 2024, the Liechtenstein business newspaper Wirtschaft Regional reported on an information event held by the Bankers Association with Timber Finance on carbon certification for timber buildings.
04 Mar 2024
Forest investors weigh timber against carbon credits
The Wall Street Journal describes how investors that own forestland decide tree by tree whether to harvest for timber or keep trees standing for carbon credits.
01 Mar 2024
Investing in the timber industry: interview with Erik Reichmuth
In an interview marked as advertising on 20 Minuten, Erik Reichmuth explains why timber is gaining ground as a building material and as an investment theme.
26 Feb 2024
NZZ Format: building with wood, a rescue for the climate?
The NZZ Format documentary on building with timber: Hamburg's tallest timber building, a planned 80-metre Swiss timber tower, research at Cambridge and ETH Zurich, and the question of whether buildings can become carbon stores.
16 Feb 2024
Building Blocks: pilot phase for carbon removal credits in timber construction
In February 2024, the real estate newsletter Building Blocks presented Timber Finance's pilot phase for carbon removal credits in the DACH region.
13 Feb 2024
Swiss pilot project for carbon removal credits from timber buildings
In February 2024, Lignum reported that Timber Finance was looking for timber construction projects in the DACH region for the first application of its carbon methodology.
09 Nov 2023
Bridging the sustainability gap between timber and investors
In November 2023, the Canadian outlet Watertoday profiled Timber Finance in its UN Innovators series: its founding, the tracker certificate, selection criteria and the planned methodology.
31 Oct 2023
Washington Post: timber high-rises take on the skyline
The Washington Post visited the Sara Cultural Center in Skellefteå, Sweden, and describes the race for ever taller timber buildings, from the Ascent in Milwaukee to the Rocket in Winterthur.
01 Oct 2023
White paper on a new investment trend: timber stocks
In October 2023, Internationaler Holzmarkt presented the white paper by Timber Finance and ZHAW and asked Thomas Fedrizzi whether timber stocks make sense in difficult times.
04 Sep 2023
Forests in transition: building a second forest
In September 2023, Migros-Magazin ran a feature on the Swiss forest. In it, Frank Vasek of Timber Finance explains why hardwood should be built with rather than burned.
29 Aug 2023
ZHAW and Timber Finance publish a guide to investing in timber
At the end of August 2023, Timber Finance and ZHAW published the white paper “Anlegen in die Moderne Wald- und Holzbauindustrie”. Wirtschaftsraum Zürich and many other outlets reported on it.
24 Apr 2023
Investing in forestry with the ZKB tracker
In April 2023, Investrends reported on the new tracker certificate on the Timber Finance Forest-based Construction Basket. Swiss Fund Data, Tagblatt24, Lignum and Timbatec also covered the launch.
16 Jan 2023
Timber construction as a negative emissions technology
In Holzkurier, Thomas Fedrizzi and Marisa Steiner of the Timber Finance Initiative explain why timber construction needs to scale and what role carbon removal credits play.
17 Nov 2022
Animated explainer video by "Wald Schweiz"
WaldSchweiz, the Swiss forest owners' association, explains in a short animation why using wood is climate protection: the forest absorbs carbon, the wood product holds it, and it replaces materials that emit.
17 Nov 2022
CLT (aka wooden skyscrapers), explained
Grist explains cross-laminated timber: layers of boards glued at right angles into panels strong enough for tall buildings, and the reason architects keep coming back to them.
20 Oct 2022
Profitable timber boom: investing with impact in timber
In Handelszeitung of 20 October 2022, Erik Reichmuth explained how impact investors can benefit from the transformation of the forestry and timber industry.
01 Oct 2022
Timber construction credits: a new solution for forests, investors and the carbon market
In Schweizer Holzrevue 10/11 2022, Thomas Fedrizzi explained how carbon removal credits were meant to offset the extra cost of timber construction while compensating forest owners.
29 Sep 2022
Pioneering the first mass timber carbon removal methodology
In September 2022, the Timber Finance Initiative, Green Canopy NODE, South Pole and Gordian Knot Strategies announced the development of a methodology for carbon credits from multi-storey timber buildings.
19 Apr 2022
Investing sustainably in forests and timber
In Prestige Business, Erik Reichmuth explained in April 2022 why sustainable forests are missing from many portfolios and how the Timber Finance Initiative wants to change that with new financial products.
08 Apr 2022
Marketing the forest's climate performance through forest climate projects
In Der Zürcher Bauer, Felix Keller of WaldZürich explained in April 2022 how forest owners can market the climate performance of their forests, and pointed to the work of the Timber Finance Initiative.
08 Apr 2022
Does the timber industry benefit from decarbonisation?
In April 2022, Holz-Zentralblatt reported on the online event “CO₂, steckt da Kohle drin?” held by the Bund Deutscher Holzwirte, where Erik Reichmuth presented the Timber Finance Initiative's view.
03 Mar 2022
Timber Finance Initiative launches a financial index for forestry and timber
In March 2022, Lignum reported on the Timber Finance Carbon Capture & Storage Index of 30 listed forestry and timber companies. Graubündenholz, Internationaler Holzmarkt and other outlets also covered the launch.
14 Dec 2021
Initiative aims to build a market for the climate performance of timber construction
In December 2021, Lignum presented the newly founded Timber Finance Initiative, which aims to bring investors and the timber industry together in a market for buildings that keep CO₂ out of the atmosphere.
22 Jun 2021
Carbon Sequestration and Storage in the Built Environment
A scoping review of 180 studies tests the idea of buildings as a carbon sink, from single materials to the global building stock. Its verdict: biobased materials can make a substantial contribution to climate mitigation, but only alongside rapid decarbonisation.
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Timber Carbon
2 months ago
Proud to announce that we'll be at SIBCA in Paris from 1–3 September, stand F5, Grand Palais. Elodie Vignon speaks on Thursday 3 September at 2:30 pm, salle Clémenceau: "Buildings that store carbon".
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5 months ago
Which high-rise has a timber load-bearing structure? At H1 on the Zwhatt site in Regensdorf, it's hardly visible at first glance. Around 2,250 m³ of timber, roughly 1,500 t CO₂ stored and one floor completed per week — a look at one of Switzerland's most exciting timber hybrid projects.
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View postTimber Carbon
5 months ago
Why does timber make up only 5–10% of multi-storey construction? A cost premium of 10–15% and a knowledge gap. Carbon removal credits can offset part of that premium, enough to tip decisions where several construction systems are economically viable.
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