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Articles tagged with: timber
'The facts speak for themselves': Wood must be part of the conversation at COP27 Partner content
Environment
By Confor
"The facts speak for themselves": Wood must be part of the conversation at COP27
COP27 provides an opportunity for global leaders to protect our forests and accelerate tree planting.
Why forestry should be at the top of the next Prime Minister's agenda Partner content
Environment
By Confor
Why forestry should be at the top of the next Prime Minister's agenda
With the sector contributing more than £2 billion to the UK economy, forestry ticks all of the right boxes on the road to Net Zero.
Now embodied carbon is back on the agenda, let’s seize the chance to make real progress on reducing emissions Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Now embodied carbon is back on the agenda, let’s seize the chance to make real progress on reducing emissions
With the Environmental Audit Committee publishing its blueprint for reducing carbon emissions in construction, there is the momentum to legislative towards a more sustainable built environment.
Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Timber crucial to carbon reduction, says Environmental Audit Committee
Using timber has been recognised as a crucial route to decarbonising our built environment in a new, landmark report from the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC).
Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Plant more trees for a greener construction future
TIMBER has a central role to play in reducing carbon emissions in construction - and the UK will not meet its climate change targets without major changes in the building industry, an influential House of Commons committee has warned.
Two years on from General Election 2019, are tree planting promises any closer to being delivered? Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Two years on from General Election 2019, are tree planting promises any closer to being delivered?
More weight must be thrown behind our tree planting ambition to help achieve net zero.
Timber holds the key to take on embodied carbon in 2022 Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Timber holds the key to take on embodied carbon in 2022
Embodied carbon emissions from the built environment must be tackled now if we are to meet our climate change ambitions says David Warburton, MP for Somerton and Frome, and chair of the APPG for the Timber Industries.
Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
How the timber industries can help solve the housing crisis
Recognising that the UK must build more homes, quicker, while reducing carbon emissions, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Timber Industries has launched with a new report that aims to provide solutions to the UK’s housing and climate crises.
How we can build a sustainable future with timber Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
How we can build a sustainable future with timber
We must recognise the importance of timber in overcoming our climate challenge.
We must unlock the potential of the timber industry with new APPG Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
We must unlock the potential of the timber industry with new APPG
The UK timber industry can help us reach net-zero and meet housing targets – which is why I’m relaunching the APPG for the Timber Industries.
Embodying the case for wood Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Embodying the case for wood
Using wood in construction not only has the power to make a significant contribution towards net zero, but to enhance public health and wellbeing in the process.
Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Confederation of Timber Industries announces new Chair
After serving four years as Chair of the Confederation of Timber Industries (CTI), Roy Wakeman OBE, has decided to leave his post to spend more time on his other interests, with fellow sector expert, Alex Goodfellow stepping into the role.
Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Structural timber: focusing on the facts
The Time for Timber campaign has released a white paper that aims to help insurance companies understand the vital role they play in supporting the construction industry to achieve Net Zero status by 2050.
Timber industry calls for embodied carbon to be regulated Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Timber industry calls for embodied carbon to be regulated
The timber industry is calling for embodied carbon to be regulated in response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s (EAC) recent inquiry into the sustainability of the built environment.
Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Confor welcomes commitment to tree-planting from Chancellor
In response to yesterday’s announcements, Confor (the Confederation of Forest Industries) has welcomed the latest confirmation that the UK Government is committed to planting 30,000 hectares of new woodland annually by 2025.
Extending the combustible materials ban will severely inhibit our ability to decarbonise the construction industry Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Extending the combustible materials ban will severely inhibit our ability to decarbonise the construction industry
Quicker to construct, quieter to assemble, delivering cost savings and with impeccable environmental credentials – engineered timber systems should be the number one choice for any building.
From tackling climate change to increasing employment, British forestry provides social, economic and environmental benefits to society Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
From tackling climate change to increasing employment, British forestry provides social, economic and environmental benefits to society
British forestry and tree planting provide social, economic and environmental value in rural communities; it protects biodiversity, and it protects the ecosystems services and natural capital we rely on. 
Increased tree planting will benefit the environment and the economy Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
Increased tree planting will benefit the environment and the economy
Enhanced tree planting and greater wood use can help deliver the UK Government’s short-term imperative (a Green Recovery from Covid-19), medium-term goal (Build Back Better) and long-term aim (Net-Zero by 2050).
Partner content
Environment
By Wood for Good
New timber industry campaign to reduce CO2 in construction
A new industry campaign to showcase timber’s environmental credentials is being launched today (13 July).
For a green recovery, let’s build back better – in wood Partner content
Coronavirus
By Wood for Good
For a green recovery, let’s build back better – in wood
It is up to all of us who care about our legacy to our children and grandchildren to turn the talk about re-building the country through a new Green Economy into a reality, by metaphorically and literally building back better – in wood.
Environment
By Wood for Good
Sustainability and safety should go hand in hand – ignorance is an enemy of both
Whilst we agree with Kieran Mullan MP that sustainability should not come before safety, if we focus first on ensuring truly quality buildings, there is no reason we cannot achieve both.
Environment
By Wood for Good
Specifying zero carbon materials from sustainable sources
2050, the target date set by Government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero, seems a long way away. But the construction industry’s hefty 40% contribution to the UK’s total carbon footprint means action needs to start now.
Sustainable timber under threat from combustibles legislation Partner content
Economy
By Wood for Good
Sustainable timber under threat from combustibles legislation
David Hopkins, Managing Director at Timber Trade Federation (TTF) discusses how new combustibles legislation from Westminister is threatening the timber industry and its ability to deliver sustainable benefits to the UK.