Throughout human history, wood has provided us with a diverse, versatile, durable and renewable manufacturing and construction material. Today it is potentially more valuable still. Its use in a bioeconomic development strategy can help reduce, even reverse adverse climate and wider environmental impacts of modern human activity.

Throughout this resource the following topics will be explored:

1. Dawn of the wood age
2. Climate, carbon and wood
3. Wood at the root of a bioeconomy
4. A sustainable, circular future in wood
5. Europe’s forests – a growing resource
6. Wood leads life cycle comparisons
7. Decarbonising construction
8. The EU wood industry – engine of growth and development