GLSTF 2026: Specialized Sub-forum 1 on Timber Legality and Sustainability
Navigating Strategies to Ensure Timber Legality and Sustainability in Disrupted Global Timber Trade

This specialized sub-forum will discuss current disruption issues related to global timber, legal and sustainable supply among different stakeholders. Understanding the issues will support stakeholder readiness from both timber consumer and producer countries, enabling their responses to challenges and opportunities encountered.

The specialized sub-forum will be divided into two sessions as follows:

Session 1: Global perspectives on current legal and sustainable supply chains disruptions and the solutions

Session 1 will discuss the dynamics of timber and timber products trade, with regard to current global disruption that needs to be dealt with and anticipated for its development, by all actors along the supply chains. Regulations are of course essential to build legal and sustainable supply chains, but trade regulations in major timber consuming markets need to be reasonable, implementable and attainable where producer countries need support and investment in capacity building to allow continued market access.

Session 2: Innovations best practice in response to evolved challenges of legal and sustainable timber supply chains

Session 2 will highlight the role of advanced technologies and innovations to support the stakeholders along the supply chains of timber and timber products to address challenges and opportunities of timber trade to minimize its negative impacts.