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GLSTF outcome showed at WTO Trade and Environment Week

On October 9 at the WTO Trade and Environment Week held in Geneva, Switzerland, Professor Jintao Xu from Peking University, aninternationally renowned scholar in the field of environmental economics, ···

GLSTF outcome showed at WTO Trade and Environment Week

On October 9 at the WTO Trade and Environment Week held in Geneva, Switzerland, Professor Jintao Xu from Peking University, aninternationally renowned scholar i···

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The Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum 2024 successfully held in Macao

The Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum 2024 (GLSTF 2024), whichis co-hosted by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the Commerce a···

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Fourth & Final Announcement for Global Legal and Sustainable Timber Forum 2024

The GLSTF 2024 aims to enhance networking, collaboration, and business exchange among timber industry stakeholders—producers, buyers, processors and market pla···

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Third Announcement for Global Legal and Sustainable Timber Forum 2024

11–12 September 2024MGM COTAI, Macao SAR, ChinaBackgroundRecent development shows that the timber industry needs to collaborate even more closely among stakeho···

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Global Timber Index Launches Index for Producers

23 June 2024: The Global Timber Index (GTI) has launched a second specialized index, on timber production, to further increase the scope and depth of the ITTO-s···

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Second Announcement for Global Legal and Sustainable Timber Forum 2024

GLSTF 2024 will be co-hosted by ITTO and IPIM and organized by the GGSC Secretariat. Specialized subforums will be co-organized by partner agencies and ITTO, IP···

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Global Timber Index Launches Index for Wood-based Panels

16 May 2024:The Global Timber Index (GTI), which tracks the performance of the timber sector in seven pilot countries, has launched its first specialized index,···

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First Announcement for Global Legal and Sustainable Timber Forum 2024

The GLSTF 2024 will be co-hosted by the ITTO and the Macao IPIM and organized by the Secretariat of the GGSC. Specialized sub-forums will be co-organized by par···

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ITTO Introduces the Global Timber Index and the Global Legal and Sustainable Timber Forum at UNFCCC COP28

In an address to the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organiz···

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GTI Cooperation & Exchange Meeting Held between GGSC and Ecuador's Ministerio Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica

On January 26, 2024, the Secretariat of Global Green Supply Chains Initiative (GGSC) and the Ministerio Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica (MAATE) of Ecuad···

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Business Case

ITTO Executive Director says legal, sustainable timber supply chains are key nature-based solutions
ITTO Executive Director Sheam Satkuru stressed the importance of legal and sustainable tropical timber supply chains and called for more investment in sustainable tropical forestry and forest enterprises to promote inclusive and resilient solutions for people and......
Enterprise Case: A self-motivated female timber entrepreneurs
Qi Yunxia, founder of Yunbu Stairs in Fengxian County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, had his right leg amputated in a serious car accident at the age of 15, but went into the wood-processing industry under the influence of his father.
Enterprise case : handmade panels to improve plate quality
In order to improve the efficiency of wood use, Jiangsu HengYuan Wood Industry Co., Ltd.retained a traditional production line in the process of wood-based panel processing and manufacturing. On the production line, female workers through cutting, splicing and...
Enterprise Case: Panel enterprises fully use of wood residues, drive the villagers to common prosperity
Jiangsu Ruitai Panel Co., Ltd.make use of local wood resources, purchase the ' three residues ' and ' sub-small fuelwood ' in farmers ' homes as raw materials to produce particleboard, to maximize the use of wood resources. Farmers in their spare time can be...
Experts' Views: Ms. Sheam Satkuru, Executive Director of ITTO
In the past 25-30 years, the international community has attached great importance to sustainable development. The establishment of a legal and sustainable green supply chain requires joint efforts of all relevant bodies, such as government, private sector...
Experts' Views: Dr. Gerhard Dieterle，Former Executive Director of ITTO
Mitigation of climate change, biodiversity conservation and poverty elimination involving trees and forests can only be fully achieved by legally and sustainably use of forest resources, within the framework of legal and sustainable supply chains, from the forest to the market.

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Specialized Sub-forum on Green Finance and Innovative Facilitating Measures for Green Supply Chains successfully held | GLSTF 2024
On September 12 during the Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum 2024, the Specialized Sub-forum on Green Finance and Innovative Facilitating Measures for Green Supply Chains was successfully held. The sub-forum was co-hosted by Global Green Supply Chain of Forest Products...

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GGSC Secretariat Visits Guangxi, China for Research and Exchanges
From June 5 to 6, with the support of Guangxi Guigang Forest Products Association, several organizations including the Secretariat of the Global Green Supply Chains Initiative (GGSC), Guigang Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, Qintang District Municipal Commission of Development and Ref

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Youth Leadership | Forest Products Industry and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into Campus - "World Environment Day" Activities
On June 5, the "Youth Leadership forForest Products Industry and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into Campus - World Environment Day Activities " was held at the ZJU-Ninghai Joint Research Center for Bio-based Materials and Carbon Neutral Development in China.

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Meeting for Pushing Forward GLSTF Achievements Held in Henan, China
On May 17, a meeting for pushing forward the achievements of Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum (GLSTF) was held in Qingfeng County, which is located in Puyang City of Henan Province, China. With the support of Peng Yanqing, President of Qingfeng Home Furnishing Research Institute, represen

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2024

GTI Report - September 2024

The Global Timber Index (GTI) Report for September revealed that on 11 September 2024 during the Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum 2024 (GLSTF 2024) (in Macao, China), ne···

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TIME

09
2024

GTI-Producers Report - September 2024

In September 2024, the GTI-Producers registered 49.1% and had stayed below the critical value (50%) for five consecutive months, indicating a continued downturn for the overall pro···

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TIME

09
2024

GTI-Woodbased Panel (GTI-WBP) Report - September 2024

In September, the GTI-Woodbased Panel (GTI-WBP) Index registered 47.4%, an increase of 6.7 percentage points from the previous month, was below the critical value (50%) for six con···

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