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

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.

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.

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.

19 Aug 2024

Timber Finance is shaking up the market for carbon removal credits

Erik Reichmuth explains in Zürcher Wald how storage certificates put a price on the carbon held in a timber building, and what that means for forest owners in the canton of Zurich.

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.

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.

03 Oct 2023

Wald im Wandel

A Migros Magazin feature on how climate change is reshaping Swiss forests, and what that means for timber use.

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.