Timber Industry Net-Zero Roadmap
[edit] Net Zero Roadmap
Timber Development UK (TDUK), in collaboration with other key UK timber trade associations, launched the Timber Industry Net Zero Roadmap in January 2023.
The roadmap sets out the causes of emissions within the timber supply chain and proposes steps the industry could take to reduce these and what the journey to Net Zero could look like.
The timber industry has long advocated the use of timber to reduce the embodied carbon impact of construction. However, until now, there was very little information available to show the wider impacts of the supply chain.
The roadmap includes this carbon footprint of the Timber Industry, as well as a Net Zero emissions trajectory to 2050 and policy recommendations with sub-sectoral action plans to deliver the reductions.
[edit] Policy recommendations:
This Roadmap presents a Net Zero Pathway for the Timber Industry alongside a set of high-level policy recommendations:
- Industry should align to the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) protocol to report Scope 1 & Scope 2 emissions by all non-SME operators by 2023
- Set industry standard to compile full scope carbon footprints (inc. Scope 3) by 2025
- Reduce road going transport emissions intensity by 25% by 2030, and 50% by 2035
- Reduce processing/manufacturing emissions intensity by 50% by 2030
- Reduce forestry emissions intensity by 50% by 2040
- Reduce Scope 1 & 2 carbon intensity of the industry by 90% by 2045
- Reduce Scope 3 carbon intensity of the industry by 90% by 2050
- The industry will develop a specific circularity/resource efficiency roadmap by 2024 to accelerate the activity in this key area
- Nature-based solutions (combined with the above reductions) focused on permanent carbon removals to be used for offsetting
- The industry will support targets/initiatives to increase domestic production and expansion of the domestic woodland stock.
For more information about Timber Development UK’s Net-Zero Roadmap.
--Timber Development UK 16:58, 10 Feb 2023 (BST)
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