11th March 2024

First Announcement
Global Legal and Sustainable Timber Forum, GLSTF 2024
11–12 September 2024
MGM COTAI, Macao SAR, China
Background
Recent development shows that the timber industry needs to collaborate even more closely
among stakeholders including timber producers, buyers, processing industry and market
players nationally and internationally. It must address issues in global timber supply chainsarising from the post-pandemic and other uncertainties and must bridge the widening gap
between demand and supply for wood products. It is also essential to sustain and enhancecollaboration and exchange views and information, among timber industry stakeholders
worldwide with the aim to building a sustainable collaborative platform in promoting legal
and sustainable timber supply chains.
The ITTO’s Legal and Sustainable Supply Chain (LSSC) Programme is aimed at building legal
and sustainable supply chains. As part of the LSSC Program, ITTO and the Macao Trade andInvestment Promotion Institute (IPIM) are partners under a collaborative frameworkagreement to co-host the Global Legal and Sustainable Timber Forum (GLSTF), to accelerate
the development of legal and sustainable timber supply chains.
The GLSTF inaugural forum 2023 was held on 21-22 November 2023 in Macao by the ITTOand Macao IPIM in collaboration with the Global Green Supply Chains Initiative (GGSC). TheGLSTF 2023 was the first global forum under this partnership focused on measures to beconsidered to improve the legality and sustainability of tropical timber supply chains. Thismilestone event brought together nearly 700 participants from 36 countries. The GLSTF 2024
is scheduled in September 2024 in Macao, providing continuity on these efforts on an annualbasis.
ObjectiveThe GLSTF 2024 aims to enhance networking, collaboration, and business exchange among
timber industry stakeholders—producers, buyers, processors and market players tostrengthen support for sustainable forest management, and the uptake of legal andsustainable wood product supply chains to facilitate the legal and sustainable use and tradeof wood products in a stable, transparent and predictable business environment while
contributing to sustainable development and climate-change mitigation.
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Date & Venue
11-12 September 2024 at the MGM COTAI, Macao SAR, China.
Co-hosts & Organizer
The GLSTF 2024 will be co-hosted by the ITTO and Macao IPIM and organized by theSecretariat of the GGSC. Specialized sub-forums will be co-organized by partner agencies andthe ITTO, the IPIM and the GGSC.
Forum Structure
The GLSTF 2024 will have two components:
1) The Global Legal and Sustainable Timber Forum (main forum).
2) Four Specialized Sub-forums (sub-forums).
Theme & Topics
The theme of the GLSTF 2024 will be “Together Towards Reliable and Effective Global Timber
Supply Chains”.
The main forum will discuss topics related to reliable and stable timber resource supplies,trust and effectiveness along the timber supply chains and prospects for revitalizing global
timber supply chains.
The specialized sub-forums will be organized by partner agencies, contributing to the theme,with selected topics on timber legality and sustainability; sustainable timber resources,
markets and trade; advanced technology and machinery for wood processing; green financeand innovative facilitating measures.
Legal and Sustainable Timber Industry Display
A legal and sustainable timber industry display will be organized in parallel with the Global
Legal and Sustainable Timber Forum, GLSTF 2024, at a scale of around 30 booths.
Other Events & ActivitiesThe achievements of the Global Timber Index (GTI) and the Blockchain-based Timber Tracking
System (BTTS) as well as others will be released at the GLSTF 2024. Other business activities
and side events, such as B2B matchings, will be arranged accordingly.
Participants
The GLSTF 2024 is expected to attract around 700 participants from wood enterprises andtrading companies, industrial and business associations, governments, internationalorganizations, research institutions, etc.
Languages
2The GLSTF 2024 will feature simultaneous interpretation in Chinese (Mandarin), English,French, Spanish and Portuguese.

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