On November 7-8, the 10th International Hardwood Conference was successfully held in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Luo Xinjian, Secretary-General of the Global Green Supply Chains Initiative (GGSC), attended the conference at the invitation of the Association of the Austrian Wood Industri...

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, delivered a keynote speech titled "China's Timber Trade and Sustainable...

The Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum 2024 (GLSTF 2024), whichis co-hosted by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute of the Macao SAR (IPIM), and organized by the Secretariat of the Global Green Supply C...

The GLSTF 2024 aims to enhance networking, collaboration, and business exchange among timber industry stakeholders—producers, buyers, processors and market players to strengthen support for sustainable forest management, and the uptake of legal and sustainable wood product supply...

11–12 September 2024MGM COTAI, Macao SAR, ChinaBackgroundRecent development shows that the timber industry needs to collaborate even more closely among stakeholders including timber producers, buyers, processing industry and market p

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-supported GTI. The first edition of GTI-Producers, for May, reported an overall index value of 39.2%, indicating a declin...

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, IPIM and the GGSC Secretariat. The aim of GLSTF 2024 is to enhance networking, collaboration and business exchange among t...

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, on wood-based panels, thereby increasing the scope and depth of the GTI and preparing the ground for the launch of othe...

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 partner agencies and the ITTO, the IPIM and the GGSC.

In an address to the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organization) Executive Director Sheam Satkuru said sustainably managed tropical forests and wood production are crucial nature...