What Can I Do: More uses for wood
Using wood as a building material is climate-friendly and sustainable. Wood products are unique.
They come from a natural, renewable, sustainable resource.
The carbon they contain remains stored for the duration of the product’s lifetime, until it decays, or is burned.
The longer the wood product is used, the longer the period of time the carbon is stored within it.
A global increase in the use of industrial wood products would increase the amount of carbon stored.
When it comes to constructing homes and buildings, wood has the lowest energy consumption and CO2 emissions of any commonly used building material.
As well as being climate friendly and sustainable, wood is a good insulator, so we can also reduce the amount of energy needed to heat our buildings.
Designing future buildings to use more wood instead of concrete, plastic and steel could result in a significant drop in greenhouse gas emissions.
We can help reduce CO2 emissions by replacing products whose manufacture produces higher levels of carbon dioxide emissions with sustainably produced wood and paper.
We can recover the energy stored in wood chippings, cuttings and loose branches that are often left after trees are cut down or sawn by using them instead of fossil fuels.
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Wood for GoodEuropean Confederation of woodworking industries
