Sustainable timber and deforestation

Inquiry by the Environmental Audit Committee, 25 July 2022 to 9 May 2024. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• Fifth Report - Seeing the wood for the trees: the contribution of the forestry and timber sectors to biodiversity and net zero goals (19 July 2023)
• First Special Report - Seeing the wood for the trees: the contribution of the forestry and timber sectors to biodiversity and net zero goals: Government Response to the Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 2022–23 (15 December 2023)
• Fourth Report - The UK's contribution to tackling global deforestation (4 January 2024)
• Fifth Special Report - The UK’s contribution to tackling global deforestation: Government Response to the Committee’s Fourth Report (26 March 2024)

Evidence sessions

• 26 October 2022: Aston University; Drax Group; European Academies Science Advisory Council
• 26 October 2022: Confederation of Forest Industries UK; Forestry Commission; Woodland Trust; Structural Timber Association
• 2 November 2022: Drax Group; European Academies Science Advisory Council; Aston University
• 9 November 2022: Client Earth; Stockholm Environment Institute York; Global Witness; We Mean Business Coalition
• 7 December 2022: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB); Professor David Coomes, University of Cambridge; Dr Mike Morecroft, Natural England
• 7 December 2022: Timber Development UK; Country Land and Business Association; Maelor Forest Nurseries; Institute of Chartered Foresters
• 1 March 2023: Duncan Brack, n/a; Duncan Brack, Chatham House; Duncan Brack, Green Alliance; Forest Peoples Programme; Dr Constance McDermott, University of Oxford
• 1 March 2023: Global Canopy; Tropical Forest Alliance, World Economic Forum; Schroders
• 29 March 2023: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• 29 March 2023: Forestry Commission; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs