The "2025 Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum (GLSTF 2025)" will take place at MGM COTAI, Macao, from September 23 to 24. Under the theme "From Forest to Home – International Dialogue on Consumption Trends and Supply Chain Innovation", the forum has planned nearly 20 diverse activities including conferences, roundtable dialogues, an exhibition, B2B business matching sessions, and launches. It is expected to attract key participants from the global forest and home furnishing industries from over 40 countries to gather in Macao for high-quality exchange and cooperation.
GLSTF 2025 is co-organized by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) and the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), with the Secretariat of the Global Green Supply Chain Initiative for Forest Products (GGSC) serving as the implementing unit. MGM is providing support as the "Diamond Partner".
As an annual international forum highly anticipated by the global timber industry, GLSTF has been held in Macao for two consecutive years in 2023 and 2024. It continues to leverage Macao's platform for MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) events to promote the implementation of numerous international cooperation outcomes and transnational action plans. These include the "Action Framework for Promoting Legal and Sustainable Timber Supply Chains", the "Global Timber Index (GTI) Platform", the "Blockchain-based Timber Traceability System (BTTS)", the "Integration Action Plan for Green Finance and Green Supply Chains", and the "Demonstration Action on Cluster and Park Cooperation between Central Africa and China in the Timber Industry".
Multiple Thematic Sessions Cover Entire Industry Chain; Macao Representatives to Participate
GLSTF 2025 will focus on the demand side, featuring multiple thematic sessions covering the entire forest and home furnishing industry chain. Topics range from upstream forest resource management to downstream furniture and home furnishing consumer markets, as well as new directions for innovation and technological transformation. Specific sessions include: "Global Timber Consumption Trends and Supply Chain Innovation", "New Consumption Trends in Forest Products and the Furniture/Home Furnishing Industry", "Timber Legality and Sustainability – Addressing Uncertainties in Global Timber Trade Barriers", "Sustainable Timber Resources, Markets, and Trade – Green, Innovative, Sustainable", "Market Trends and Industrial Development in Furniture and Home Furnishing – Empowered by Green and Smart Technologies, Co-existing with Trends", and "Global Forest Sustainable Development and Supply Chain Finance – Forestry Supply Chain Finance and Ecological Product Value". These aim to drive innovation and upgrading of the global timber industry chain.
Representatives from various sectors in Macao will also participate in the forum, sharing Macao's perspectives and contributing expertise in areas such as green and low-carbon development, green finance, forest investment, home design, timber sustainability, and Greater Bay Area corporate culture.
"Sustainable Timber Exhibition" Held Concurrently, Featuring Products from Multiple Regions
A "Sustainable Timber Exhibition" will be held alongside the forum, featuring approximately 30 exhibition booths. Exhibitors include timber and home furnishing enterprises, international organizations, and industry associations from Germany, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Switzerland, Japan, Italy, various provinces and cities in Mainland China, and Macao. They will showcase timber-related products such as logs, sawn timber, furniture, wooden flooring, wood-based panels, wooden doors, and wooden crafts on-site, creating multi-scenario matching opportunities for suppliers and buyers, and facilitating the application and cooperation of industry products and technologies.
