Building with Wood: Nature’s Climate Solution

The built environment is responsible for nearly 40% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. Rapid decarbonization is needed in all sectors to avoid the worst climate change scenarios, and wood products present a right-now solution to this challenge. They are significantly lower in embodied carbon than traditional building materials and provide numerous environmental benefits when sourced from sustainably managed forests. Innovations like mass timber are also increasingly offering critical solutions to societal issues like affordable housing.

Building with Wood: Nature’s Climate Solution will take a deep dive into the sustainability of the whole wood products sector from forestry and manufacturing to building design and policy to explore the many ways wood products present a solution to the environmental and social issues of the climate crisis.