Course info

The built environment is responsible for nearly 40% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. In order to avoid the worst climate change scenarios, rapid decarbonization is needed in all sectors. Wood products present a right-now solution to this challenge, as they are significantly lower in embodied carbon than other conventional building materials, and, when sourced from sustainably managed forests, provide numerous environmental benefits. This webinar will walk through the sustainability story of U.S. wood products and show the work we’re doing to tell the story transparently through data and EPDs.   

By the end of the course, you should be able to do the following:

• Understand how wood products benefit the climate and the environment.
• Analyze how AWC incorporates data to increase transparency and demonstrate the lower embodied carbon in wood products through LCAs and EPDs.
• Examine the different types of wood sourcing sustainability assurances and protocols for sharing where wood products originate.
• Learn about efforts to expand data collection to include the whole of the US wood products industry.