A novel assessment framework reveals how materials like CLT can act as carbon sinks by accounting for time-dependent CO₂ dynamics across their life cycle.

The report emphasizes the need to scale carbon dioxide removals to meet the EU’s climate neutrality and net-negative targets. It assesses opportunities and risks of removal methods like afforestation, BECCS, and DACCS, highlighting governance, land use, and infrastructure challenges. Key recommendations include separate targets for emissions and removals, EU ETS integration, and improved CO₂ storage infrastructure.

The 2024 CDR Market Year in Review analyzes key trends in carbon dioxide removal, covering market growth, buyer-supplier dynamics, pricing, funding, and removal methods like Biomass CDR, DAC, Enhanced Weathering, and Marine CDR. Highlights include a 7.5 million tonne rise in purchases, biomass dominance, and major global funding developments.

A global, independent scientific assessment of Carbon Dioxide Removal

Prof. Dr. J. Schellnhuber, Leiter Potsdam-Institut für Klimaforschung zur «Wald-Bau-Pumpe» als eine der Lösungen gegen den Klimawandel und warum Wälder bewirtschaftet werden müssen.

The new Timber Construction Study highlights how mass timber and engineered wood systems reduce CO₂ emissions through resource efficiency, circular economy principles, and industrialized construction. It showcases large-scale projects that decarbonize urban areas and offers policy recommendations for scaling sustainable building solutions.

Die neue Holzbaustudie zeigt: Holz ist mehr als ein Baustoff – es eröffnet eine klimaschonende Zukunft im Bauwesen. Durch innovative Planungs- und Fertigungsverfahren werden CO₂-Emissionen drastisch reduziert, ohne die Kosten aus dem Ruder laufen zu lassen. Praxisnahe Beispiele belegen, wie moderner Holzbau ganze Stadtquartiere prägt und zugleich natürliche Ressourcen schont. Mit konkreten Handlungsempfehlungen an Politik und Wirtschaft treibt die Studie den Wandel hin zu nachhaltigerem Bauen mutig voran.

A new MSCI ESG Research report examines the relationship between corporate emissions performance and the use of carbon credits. Contrary to concerns that carbon credit users reduce fewer emissions, the analysis finds that companies using credits tend to perform better across key climate metrics. They are more transparent about emissions, set ambitious climate targets, and reduce their absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions at more than twice the rate of non-users. The findings suggest that companies engaging with carbon markets often have stronger overall climate strategies.