Short films showing the increasing focus on our built environment as a climate solution
We are proud to support a new trilogy of short films showing the increasing focus on our built environment as a climate solution, documenting Spanish cities’ work to accelerate mass timber as a primary building material.
Over half of the world’s population currently lives in cities, and this is expected to grow to nearly 70% of us by 2050 (source: Cities4Forests).
We urgently need to find ways of building and renovating our cities that work in unison with nature and put timber and other biobased materials on a level playing field with carbon-intensive materials like concrete and steel.
We are proud to support a new trilogy of short films showing the increasing focus on our built environment as a climate solution, documenting Spanish cities’ work to accelerate mass timber as a primary building material.
Travelling across Spain to visit factories, forests and seats of government, the films show financiers, city leaders in procurement and academia, designers, and European and national sector networks discussing the market’s changing practices, and the different powers each part of the value chain has to unlock timber construction in Spain. As the fourth-largest economy in Europe, Spain’s ability to set precedents and lead by example is clear.
The citiES 2030 mission brings together Spanish cities in a collaborative framework established by the Fundación Biodiversidad of the Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico and implemented by EIT Climate-KIC together with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Complementing this work, Spanish timber buildings network, Mass Madera and Built by Nature bring together leaders and pioneers in the built environment to identify and overcome barriers to timber use at a national and city level.
Access Climate-KIC’s guide to biobased materials in cities (in English, Spanish and Italian) here.
