To rebuild share in the European market, the tropical wood sector must exploit emerging opportunities from the synergies between the FLEGT VPA process and private sector forest certification initiatives, and to focus relentlessly on communicating simple messages to target audiences of architects, designers and civil engineers on the carbon mitigation and forest conservation benefits of using sustainable tropical timber.  These were key messages of the 2019 European Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC) Conference, held in Berlin, Germany, on 20th November.  The Conference was convened to consider the related themes of tropical timber promotion and ...