Citigroup
The Citigroup Foundation's core support for the GFTN since 2005 has enabled the GFTN to reshape key markets and build responsible forestry sectors in priority countries including China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brazil, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica, by building sustainable forest product supply chains.
In so doing, the partnership has advanced responsible forest management in forest ecosystems of global significance, guaranteed the supply of responsibly harvested and traded forest products for companies engaged in the trade and investment of forest products, and created a powerful platform for sustainable economic development.
The Citigroup Foundation's support in the next year will allow the GFTN to build on this success by
- Completing its global business plan and launching a communications campaign to implement the plan across the entire network
- Aggressively engaging the U.S. and Chinese forest products market and their associated supply relationships to address the "timber footprint" of the two largest timber consumers in the world, and
- Working with Brazilian paper and pulp manufacturers to help them gain greater access to the U.S. market.
Citigroup’s continued support will give us the leverage needed to meet our objectives. We deeply appreciate Citigroup’s commitment to promoting and increasing the demand for, and supply of legal wood products.
