Council chair hopes tropical timber sector will rise again in post-pandemic era

2021-11-30

Tuesday, 30 November 2021: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a huge shift in the world’s economic landscape, including the forest industry, but there is hope that the forest sector will “pick up” as countries increasingly adopt recovery measures, according to Chair of the International Tropical Timber Council, Kheirruddin Mohd Rani, who spoke yesterday at the opening of the Council’s 57th session.