Building 18-storey wooden “plyscrapers” could help Britain to meet its climate change targets, according to the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering.
In a report commissioned by the government, engineers and environmental experts said that making homes, offices and even bridges from timber instead of concrete and steel would remove up to four million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from the atmosphere.
Trees absorb carbon dioxide as they grow and planting up to 500 million more in the UK by 2050 could be one of the cheapest and most effective ways of offsetting emissions, the authors said.
