Challenges and opportunities for timber buildings in the swiss real estate market: The role of carbon credits

The role of carbon credits. FINANCING THE LOW-CARBON ECONOMY Instruments, Barriers and Recommendations. Timber buildings can potentially generate additional cashflows from carbon credits, which can increase the attractiveness of timber real estate investments compared to traditional building materials, such as concrete and steel. This attractiveness is however highly dependent on the assumedcarbon credit price and developments on the regulatory level