The end days of the Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers saga involving the timber company building a deep-water harbour facility on the island played out in the South Australian Parliament this week. And it looks like it could cost the State’s Attorney General, who is also Planning Min

Five Japanese-inspired urban forests have been planted in Glasgow to mark the Scottish city’s role as host of COP26. The so-called tiny forest plantations are based on the work of Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, who died earlier this year. Source: The Japan Times He pioneered a meth

The UK timber industry has produced a guide to measuring the embodied carbon in timber construction. The technical paper, produced by industry body Timber Development UK, is designed to ‘bring clarity’ to the process of assigning carbon values. Source: The Construction Index Assessing

Representatives of Lendlease, Stora Enso, Google, WEB Limited Group, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Green Building Council have called on governments and industry to make urgent commitments to tackle climate change and achieve a net zero society. Sour

More structural timber will make it to the housing market in South Australia through two regional projects receiving state government funding. Primary Industries Minister David Basham said Morgan Sawmill at Jamestown would get $283,000 towards the first stage of its plan to upscale. S

  New Zealand’s Signature Homes has signalled its intention to mitigate its house construction carbon dioxide emissions by planting around 45,000 native trees annually. Source: Timberbiz The company’s CO2 reduction program will kick off in early 2022 and Chief Executive Paul Bull

Australia’s forest industries have welcomed the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ new report on forest products and the vital role they play in the global bioeconomy and climate change mitigation. Source: Timberbiz The report, Forest products in the global bioec

Ms Debra Blaskett has been appointed as the new Chair of the Forest Products Commission (FPC). Ms Blaskett, who has served as an FPC Commissioner since June 2021, brings to the role extensive experience as both a non-executive director and senior executive working across a range of in