Measuring and trading the stored carbon in your timber building

Explore the key elements of the emerging market for trading the carbon stored in your timber building, in particular, measurement, certification and the carbon market.

As the built environment seeks real climate solutions, timber is coming into sharp focus: not only does sustainably timber act as a low-carbon alternative to steel and concrete, it also sequesters biogenic carbon, locking CO₂ away in building fabric for years or decades. Paired with strong forest management, timber will be essential to our net zero transition.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how you can begin preparing now to capture the value of carbon stored in your building, including how to measure the biogenic carbon in your timber structures, how to gain credible certification for that stored carbon (so it’s recognised and trusted), and how to get ready to trade or monetise your building’s carbon in future markets.

We’ll draw on leading-edge work from:

• One Click LCA: whose tools are helping architects, developers and engineers to carry out life-cycle assessments, quantify both embodied and biogenic carbon, and integrate carbon data into design and procurement decisions.
• Grown in Britain: which provides assurance of provenance, sustainability and legality of home-grown UK timber, offering Chain of Custody certification and traceable sourcing to ensure that timber in buildings is meeting best practice from forest to structure.
• Timber Finance: pioneering methodologies for carbon removal credits tied to timber construction, creating financial instruments and standards for quantifying, verifying and trading the climate benefits of built timber.

What you will gain from attending:

• Insight into the technical and methodological tools for accurately measuring stored biogenic carbon in timber buildings.
• Understanding of current and emerging certification schemes that underpin credible carbon storage claims.
• A roadmap for preparing projects so they are ‘market-ready’ for future carbon trading: data, documentation, risks, and opportunities.

This is essential for developers, architects, forestry and supply chain professionals, sustainability leads, investors – anyone interested in turning timber construction not just into a climate solution, but into a viable carbon asset.

Speakers:

• Introduction to the session – Charlie Law, TDUK (5 min)
• Measuring embodied and stored carbon in buildings in accordance with RICS Professional Standard V2.0 – One Click LCA (10-15min)
• Certification of stored carbon in buildings – Grown in Britain (10-15min)
• Introduction to carbon trading – Timber Finance (10-15min)
• Q&A 15min