Meeting the challenges in the forestry sector

It has taken Central Africa less than a decade to become a reference region in terms of forest certification. In the wake of these advances, the forest-timber industry sets out to meet new forestry challenges: FLEGT, REDD+…

Whether you are a professional player concerned by changes in the forestry sector…
An importer or a prescriber who believes in the future of tropical timber…
An investor interested in sustainable development in Africa…

Racewood 2011 is the opportunity to take stock on these issues and to meet with :
• Decision-makers and experts involved in current international negotiations on forests, trade of tropical timber and the climate…
• All the stakeholders involved in the certification process in the Congo Basin (NGO, auditors, companies, administrations, donors, scientists…)

On the agenda of the 4th African Meeting for Cooperation with Europe …

Count on the qualities of tropical timber.

African timber producers respond to new market requirements by adapting logging practices and processing capacities.

Industrialists… Importers…
Or distributors concerned by the implementation of responsible purchasing policies…

Seize the opportunities brought by this new dynamism on the occasion of Racewood 2011 :
• Discover a competitive offer of certified timber products;
• Negotiate supplies of high quality tropical timber from legal origins;
• Provide your customers and prospective customers with an offer of processed timber products carrying the best social and environmental labels.