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.