Minnesota became the fifth state to enforce numeric carbon limits, rather than mere reporting requirements, on publicly procured construction materials when its first global warming potential…
A new 50% tariff on Canadian goods takes effect August 19, 2026, and it carves out the one product category that has defined the US-Canada trade…
Tim Searchinger, the World Resources Institute’s technical director for land use, resigned this month from the working group advising the Greenhouse Gas Protocol on how companies…
Compliance carbon prices firmed across the major North American and European schemes this month, while timber moved the opposite direction. The European Union Allowance (EUA) settled…
Atlassian Central, the 39-story hybrid timber tower rising above Sydney’s Central Station, reached its full height of 180 meters on July 22, 2026, making it the…
California’s Green Building Standards Code (CALGreen), Title 24, Part 11, cut the commercial building threshold for mandatory embodied carbon compliance from 100,000 square feet to 50,000…
The International Organization for Standardization published the second edition of ISO 14025, the foundational standard governing Environmental Product Declarations, on June 24, 2026. It is the…
The EU Deforestation Regulation has been delayed twice. First from December 2024 to December 2025. Then, in Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 published in December 2025, from December…
For roughly a decade, the voluntary carbon market ran on an assumption that has finally broken: that all carbon credits are, at some level, fungible. Different…
For the last five years, the single biggest hidden cost of a mass timber building has not been the panels. It has been the insurance file.…