Search Results: 'ATIBT'

Tropical on track for 2024 olympics
24 August, 2022
The Paris Olympics has dropped its ban on the use of tropical timber in Games developments. Mike Jeffree reports

Ambition undimmed after 70 years
24 August, 2022
Forum highlights tropical timber market development initiatives. Mike Jeffree reports

ATIBT ever more active at 70
10 June, 2022
The environmental, economic and social development of the tropical forest industry is more important than ever, says ATIBT. Mike Jeffree reports

Olympian efforts in wood building
21 July, 2021
Timber construction has its sights set on gold at the Paris Olympics. Mike Jeffree reports

On board the bus to tropical sustainability
28 January, 2020
There may not be 100% agreement on the best vehicle for getting there, but there’s consensus on the need for the industry to travel together as fast as possible towards 100% tropical forestry and timber sustainability. Mike Jeffree reports from the 2019 Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition conference

Totally Tropical
19 December, 2019
The TTF’s Tropical Timber Forum featured presentations from companies on the ground in the tropical forestry belt. Sally Spencer was there

Hardwood calm amid brexit storm
17 December, 2018
Brexit may make the hardwood sector’s outlook unpredictable, but traders are “still hitting good numbers”. Mike Jeffree reports

Globalisation, branding and building the future
29 December, 2017
Hardwood trade representatives from across the globe converged on Venice for the International Hardwood Conference, reports Mike Jeffree

Sustainability and sales are key
22 December, 2014
Ensuring sustainable wood supplies and defending and developing their market are mutually dependent imperatives for the tropical timber trade, according to speakers at the ATIBT International Forum. Mike Jeffree reports.

The EUTR: a long to-do list
18 February, 2012
Discussions at Chatham House underlined that getting everything in place for the introduction of the anti-illegal logging EU Timber Regulation next March is going to make it a busy year

Pre-emptive actions prove successful
27 September, 2008
The reduction in log production earlier in the year has helped to ease the impact of falling demand but sawmills are still lowering their output

Producing reaction
08 December, 2007
Liz Betser, the TTF’s environment & forest policy manager, reports on how some tropical producers are responding to Europe’s sourcing requirements

Gabonese exports rise
12 May, 2001
Gabon's exports are growing steadily while some of its neighbours deal with log export restrictions and the aftermath of civil war, as ATIBT explains