The Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum (GLSTF 2024) concluded yesterday, with this year’s event involving around 800 participants from over 40 counties and regions, an increase of some 15 percent over last year’s inaugural event, Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute President Vincent U U Sang noted in his speech during a press conference at MGM Cotai.
The two-day forum was organised by the Secretariat of the Global Green Supply Chains Initiative (GGSC) in conjunction with Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) and the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO).
U also remarked that that the number of international organisations participating in the event doubled from last year.
Moreover, in terms of participants from the Greater Bay Area (GBA), he noted that last year, the Doors Association of Guangdong organised a 40-person delegation to participate in the event in Macau, and doubled it to 80 this year. The event also saw an increase in local participation this year.
U added that the ITTO held overseas promotional activities leading up to the event, with many potential participants mentioning the forum before it was introduced, indicating a growing interest in the event in Macau.
U pointed out that the organisers will strengthen their promotional efforts “on both the supply and demand sides of the timber industry and actively invite representatives from large timber organisations in Southeast Asia, South America and Africa to participate in the event”.
Meanwhile, ITTO Officer-in-Charge Mohammed Nurudeen Iddrisu briefed the media that one of the major achievements in the forum was the Action Framework for Promoting Legal and Sustainable Timber Supply Chains. The framework will “identify and implement a series of concrete and practical actions in various fields of the timber industry to build legal and sustainable timber supply chains”
GGSC Secretary General Luo Xinjian also noted that the forum achieved “fruitful results” and that the achievements are of milestone significance to the sustainable development of the global forest industry.
Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) President Vincent U U Sang (from left to right), International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) Officer-in-Charge Mohammed Nurudeen Iddrisu and Global Green Supply Chains Initiative (GGSC) Secretary General Luo Xinjian brief the media during yesterday’s press conference at MGM Cotai about the two-day international timber forum. – Photo: Rui Pastorin
