News from forest and wood research

Meaningful Incentive System or Unacceptable Double Counting?   On May 14, 2024, in collaboration with the Innosuisse Flagship DeCIRRA, a groundbreaking dialogue platform was held with over 40 participants, focusing intensively on CO2 storage in timber construction and its accounting on the voluntary carbon market. The event aimed to build an understanding within the industry of the basics, system boundaries, and definitions related to the voluntary carbon market, and to provi

On 25 April 2024, S-WIN, in cooperation with the Innosuisse Flagship "Think Earth", organised a dialogue platform on the recycling of waste wood in Switzerland. The event included guided tours of the waste wood processing plant and the recycling center of Schneider Umweltservices, where the waste wood, which mainly comes from the construction industry, is sorted and differentiated into uncoated and coated waste wood. The waste wood is then shredded by a shredder and screened