Translations: Alpine Space Regional Timber Award/7/en

The use of timber for products with a long service life, e.g. timber constructions, is generally considered instrumental in ensuring climate protection. Timber is a preferred material since it replaces non-renewable materials and because of the amount of CO2 stored in wood. The amount of savings depends on the actual CO2 emissions generated throughout the wood product manufacturing cycle, which is profoundly affected by wood transport routes from the forest to the final destination, i.e. construction site. Since wood product emissions often differ considerably among various companies in the Alpine Space, fluctuations can also be observed in the emissions linked to transport processes, depending on whether wood was processed in the region or imported from remote countries, many of them located outside the EU.