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CARBON & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
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Market Barometer, August 2026: Carbon costs climb while lumber demand falls

Compliance carbon prices firmed across Europe and North America this month even as US housing starts fell 13.5 percent and lumber futures gave back a tariff-driven rally, splitting the cost pressure on builders into two directions at once.

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The beat

Six lenses on the low-carbon transition in the built environment.

i

Embodied Carbon

The emissions locked into materials — and the codes, caps, and LCAs now putting a number on them.

ii

Mass Timber

Engineered wood as a carbon-storing structural system, from CLT supply to code adoption.

iii

Codes & EPDs

Green building codes and environmental product declarations, decoded for people who specify.

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iv

Forest Carbon & Timber

Where the timber economy meets the carbon market — pricing, projects, and integrity.

v

Compliance & Trade

Deforestation rules, tariffs, and the trade policy reshaping material sourcing.

vi

Markets

Monthly analysis of the carbon and timber price signals moving the built environment — with live data on CearioTrader.

Markets

The carbon price signals behind the headlines.

We track the markets you read about. Read the monthly Market Barometer for context, or open a CearioTrader account for live prices and to trade or hold credits yourself.

Credit typeIndicative
Forest carbon — ARRAfforestation / reforestation, recent vintage
$24.00
▲ 2.1%
Improved forest mgmtHigh-integrity, CCP-aligned
$18.40
▲ 0.8%
REDD+ avoided lossLegacy methodology
$6.50
▼ 1.4%
Nature-based removalsDurable, co-benefit verified
$31.20
▲ 1.6%
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