TIMBER GAP IS HUGE ‘CONUNDRUM’

摘要

The growing gap between the global supply and demand for timber is creating a “conundrum" for the UK, Confor’s Chief Executive told a parliamentary committee. David Lee reports.Stuart Goodall told the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) that the UK would need to use 78% more timber by 2050 if demand continues to rise at current rates. This is largely fuelled by the need to use more wood in construction, to help decarbonise theUK’s construction industry and contribute to meeting net zero targets. Yet the supply of wood is forecast to decline, and the UK - particularly England -has planted almost no large forests targeted at wood production for the last 30 years.