Paul Brannen
@paulbrannenne.bsky.social
Author: 'Timber! How wood can help save the world from climate breakdown'. Published 27 June 2024. Available https://www.agendapub.com/page/detail/timber/?k=9781788217354
Public Affairs Director CEI-Bois
Former UK MEP
Public Affairs Director CEI-Bois
Former UK MEP
George Orwell’s statue outside the BBC’s London HQ is accompanied by the quote “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”.
I hope the BBC goes on telling people, especially the rich & powerful, what they don’t want to hear.
I hope the BBC goes on telling people, especially the rich & powerful, what they don’t want to hear.
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
George Orwell’s statue outside the BBC’s London HQ is accompanied by the quote “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”.
I hope the BBC goes on telling people, especially the rich & powerful, what they don’t want to hear.
I hope the BBC goes on telling people, especially the rich & powerful, what they don’t want to hear.
They are going the extra kilometre with their street trees in Vienna. Extensive wild flower planting around the tree and a fence that clearly signals ‘This is not a toilet for dogs’.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
They are going the extra kilometre with their street trees in Vienna. Extensive wild flower planting around the tree and a fence that clearly signals ‘This is not a toilet for dogs’.
Dear GBNEWS
"What's good for the goose is good for the gander" so looking forward to your future headlines that will read " 'Fascist' Nigel Farage " which can clearly be justified by using quote marks because that's what some people say about him.
"What's good for the goose is good for the gander" so looking forward to your future headlines that will read " 'Fascist' Nigel Farage " which can clearly be justified by using quote marks because that's what some people say about him.
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Dear GBNEWS
"What's good for the goose is good for the gander" so looking forward to your future headlines that will read " 'Fascist' Nigel Farage " which can clearly be justified by using quote marks because that's what some people say about him.
"What's good for the goose is good for the gander" so looking forward to your future headlines that will read " 'Fascist' Nigel Farage " which can clearly be justified by using quote marks because that's what some people say about him.
Some situations and simply black & white.
November 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Some situations and simply black & white.
I’ve lost count of how many sawmills I’ve visited in the last 11 years but this is the first where a whole production line is to be found inside a new 100% timber building. Great use of Cross Laminated Timber by BERGENE HOLM AS in Norway. It smells great too!
October 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I’ve lost count of how many sawmills I’ve visited in the last 11 years but this is the first where a whole production line is to be found inside a new 100% timber building. Great use of Cross Laminated Timber by BERGENE HOLM AS in Norway. It smells great too!
An information board at Arklow station, south of Wicklow. Brilliant last line reads “After 20 years as a training college for forestry students, it was established as an open prison”.
October 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
An information board at Arklow station, south of Wicklow. Brilliant last line reads “After 20 years as a training college for forestry students, it was established as an open prison”.
Did you know that IKEA sources 84% of its wood from Europe with Poland being its biggest single country supplier? So while IKEA is as Swedish as ABBA your wooden bookshelf, wardrobe, bed etc is proportionately 29% Polish, 13% Lithuanian and only 10% Swedish.
October 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Did you know that IKEA sources 84% of its wood from Europe with Poland being its biggest single country supplier? So while IKEA is as Swedish as ABBA your wooden bookshelf, wardrobe, bed etc is proportionately 29% Polish, 13% Lithuanian and only 10% Swedish.
I'll be speaking on a webinar for Meshwork by Mesh Energy on Wed 8th Oct, 12 - 1 pm. Pros & cons of insulation from a climate perspective will be discussed. Please follow the link below if you'd like to join. Select meshwork.mesh-energy.com/events/timbe...
October 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I'll be speaking on a webinar for Meshwork by Mesh Energy on Wed 8th Oct, 12 - 1 pm. Pros & cons of insulation from a climate perspective will be discussed. Please follow the link below if you'd like to join. Select meshwork.mesh-energy.com/events/timbe...
How do we build homes without damaging the climate? At Labour's conference Andrew Orriss of the Confederation of Timber Industries made the climate case for timber as a low carbon construction material at a
@labourhousinggroup.bsky.social
fringe meeting, see sitemanagerpro.co.uk/learn/qualit...
@labourhousinggroup.bsky.social
fringe meeting, see sitemanagerpro.co.uk/learn/qualit...
September 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
How do we build homes without damaging the climate? At Labour's conference Andrew Orriss of the Confederation of Timber Industries made the climate case for timber as a low carbon construction material at a
@labourhousinggroup.bsky.social
fringe meeting, see sitemanagerpro.co.uk/learn/qualit...
@labourhousinggroup.bsky.social
fringe meeting, see sitemanagerpro.co.uk/learn/qualit...
Newcastle today.
September 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Newcastle today.
Commissioned by the Irish Gov’s housing agency ‘Embodied Carbon & the Climate Impact of our Housing’ considers the housing & climate crises. Easy wins by swapping high carbon, fossil fuel materials for bio-based. www.housingagency.ie/publications...
September 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Commissioned by the Irish Gov’s housing agency ‘Embodied Carbon & the Climate Impact of our Housing’ considers the housing & climate crises. Easy wins by swapping high carbon, fossil fuel materials for bio-based. www.housingagency.ie/publications...
I'm looking forward to speak at and taking part in the discussions at the Northern Forestry Conference next Thursday 11th September in my home city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
www.northwoods.org.uk/events/north...
www.northwoods.org.uk/events/north...
September 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I'm looking forward to speak at and taking part in the discussions at the Northern Forestry Conference next Thursday 11th September in my home city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
www.northwoods.org.uk/events/north...
www.northwoods.org.uk/events/north...
Sir David Attenborough's WWF video on forests, timber & climate change is 6 years old but it remains pertinent. Key lines include "... so we also have to farm trees just like we do other crops & create a new generation of plantations".
WWF video lnkd.in/eJxuZmqv
WWF video lnkd.in/eJxuZmqv
July 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sir David Attenborough's WWF video on forests, timber & climate change is 6 years old but it remains pertinent. Key lines include "... so we also have to farm trees just like we do other crops & create a new generation of plantations".
WWF video lnkd.in/eJxuZmqv
WWF video lnkd.in/eJxuZmqv
June 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Recently the Forestry Commission asked me to write a blog as part of their Trees to Timber campaign. I was happy to do so and it has now been posted and can be read here: forestrycommission.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/20/t...
May 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Recently the Forestry Commission asked me to write a blog as part of their Trees to Timber campaign. I was happy to do so and it has now been posted and can be read here: forestrycommission.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/20/t...
Humbled to be sharing a shelf in Waterstones with Rachel Carson.
www.waterstones.com/book/timber/...
www.waterstones.com/book/timber/...
May 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Humbled to be sharing a shelf in Waterstones with Rachel Carson.
www.waterstones.com/book/timber/...
www.waterstones.com/book/timber/...
The number of books I’ve read twice I can count on one hand. This is one of them. Completed my second reading today. As thought provoking as the first time I read it ten years ago.
April 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The number of books I’ve read twice I can count on one hand. This is one of them. Completed my second reading today. As thought provoking as the first time I read it ten years ago.
Lucky me to be shown around the finished Paradise mass timber office build in Vauxhall today. Congratulations to Bywater Properties & all involved. I’d love to work in such a building not least because I like trains! Glulam beams & columns, CLT floor slabs = 1,800tCO2e stored paradise11.co.uk
April 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Lucky me to be shown around the finished Paradise mass timber office build in Vauxhall today. Congratulations to Bywater Properties & all involved. I’d love to work in such a building not least because I like trains! Glulam beams & columns, CLT floor slabs = 1,800tCO2e stored paradise11.co.uk
Timber’s ability to store massive amounts of carbon in the built environment is akin to the capacity of Carbon Capture & Storage but free of the massive price tag to the taxpayer. redbrickblog.co.uk/blog/
April 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Timber’s ability to store massive amounts of carbon in the built environment is akin to the capacity of Carbon Capture & Storage but free of the massive price tag to the taxpayer. redbrickblog.co.uk/blog/
Visiting ERNE in Switzerland. They are currently building a hybrid timber & concrete 75m 24 storey office block by the name of ZWHATT adjacent to Regensdorf railway station, see: www.schnetzerpuskas.com/en/projects/...
April 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Visiting ERNE in Switzerland. They are currently building a hybrid timber & concrete 75m 24 storey office block by the name of ZWHATT adjacent to Regensdorf railway station, see: www.schnetzerpuskas.com/en/projects/...
I've a letter in today's Telegraph.
Summary: the UK’s top 10 housebuilders have, are acquiring or are building their own timber-frame factories. 50% of recent homes in England have been built by a company that owns a timber-frame manufacturing business – not a brick, steel or concrete frame one.
Summary: the UK’s top 10 housebuilders have, are acquiring or are building their own timber-frame factories. 50% of recent homes in England have been built by a company that owns a timber-frame manufacturing business – not a brick, steel or concrete frame one.
March 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I've a letter in today's Telegraph.
Summary: the UK’s top 10 housebuilders have, are acquiring or are building their own timber-frame factories. 50% of recent homes in England have been built by a company that owns a timber-frame manufacturing business – not a brick, steel or concrete frame one.
Summary: the UK’s top 10 housebuilders have, are acquiring or are building their own timber-frame factories. 50% of recent homes in England have been built by a company that owns a timber-frame manufacturing business – not a brick, steel or concrete frame one.
March 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Good to see agroforestry being consulted on in the UK government’s live English land use consultation see Q.5 lnkd.in/eKrxsQGs Agroforestry is a win-win, see agforward.eu
@thesoilassociation.bsky.social @agroforestry.bsky.social
@thesoilassociation.bsky.social @agroforestry.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Good to see agroforestry being consulted on in the UK government’s live English land use consultation see Q.5 lnkd.in/eKrxsQGs Agroforestry is a win-win, see agforward.eu
@thesoilassociation.bsky.social @agroforestry.bsky.social
@thesoilassociation.bsky.social @agroforestry.bsky.social
#CONFORAWARDS live from Edinburgh the Confederation of Forest Industries Awards.
February 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
#CONFORAWARDS live from Edinburgh the Confederation of Forest Industries Awards.
Nature-based 10 storey apartments in Malmo, Sweden under construction.
Timber frame and straw insulation.
Storing carbon in the frame 👍
Storing carbon in the insulation 👍
Substituting for higher embodied carbon materials 👍
Providing a healthy living environment 👍
www.boplatssyd.se/nyproduktion...
Timber frame and straw insulation.
Storing carbon in the frame 👍
Storing carbon in the insulation 👍
Substituting for higher embodied carbon materials 👍
Providing a healthy living environment 👍
www.boplatssyd.se/nyproduktion...
February 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nature-based 10 storey apartments in Malmo, Sweden under construction.
Timber frame and straw insulation.
Storing carbon in the frame 👍
Storing carbon in the insulation 👍
Substituting for higher embodied carbon materials 👍
Providing a healthy living environment 👍
www.boplatssyd.se/nyproduktion...
Timber frame and straw insulation.
Storing carbon in the frame 👍
Storing carbon in the insulation 👍
Substituting for higher embodied carbon materials 👍
Providing a healthy living environment 👍
www.boplatssyd.se/nyproduktion...