In November 2020, we gathered four Nordic experts to discuss how to set a maximum lifetime CO2 limit on new buildings in the Nordics, following a proposal to the Nordic Council’s Committee for a Sustainable Nordic Region last year. 

Nordic parliamentarian and one of the proposal's authors, Thomas Jensen, acted as a keynote listener, posing the questions and taking feedback from the experts back to a decision-making level. 

A written summary of the session will be available shortly, and you can watch the full discussion here...

With the cancellation of the Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland, we took our planned breakout session online to discuss challenges and opportunities for increasing wood in construction in the Nordic Arctic.

The digital roundtable brought together six experts from across the Nordic region, including architects, policymakers, academics and industry representatives. 

A written summary of the session will be available shortly, and you can watch the full discussion here...

A new report by the Svinesunds committee, highlights the perceived border obstacles for the wood in construction sector between Norway and Sweden.

In May 2020, we hosted a digital roundtable dialogue, bringing together five experts from across the Nordic region, including local and national policymakers, academics and industry representatives. Read more about the dialogue's outputs, and watch the full discussion here.

The Secretariat was pleased to be at the Tree2Tower conference, hosted by Bioeconomy Region in Karlstad, Sweden, in February - check out a video of our presentation here:

At the end of October, architects, contractors, suppliers gathered alongside municipalities, researchers and property developers for Building Green Copenhagen, and wood in construction was high on the agenda.

The summer of 2018 brought record-breaking warm temperatures in many parts of the world. Wonderful, many people think – even me – at a micro scale.

It is now time to look at the materials we use for constructing buildings to cut even more of the carbon emissions the construction sector is responsible for. Wood can contribute to achieving these emission reductions and more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and is yet not utilise in its full potential.