Use of Certified Wood Products Increasing at the Olympics

The Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC) Asia Promotions is recommending the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo continue the trend of using certified wood products.

The Olympics started using certified wood products in 2010 at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. More than half of all wood products used were certified by PEFC or the Forest Stewardship Council. In the 2012 Olympics in London, 95–100 percent of the 12,500 cubic meters of wood used was certified.

PEFC Asia Promotions has been appealing to the International Olympic Committee to use certified wood since 2013, when Tokyo was announced as the host city for the 2020 Olympics.

PEFC Asia Promotions is currently awaiting a response to a petition letter it sent to the IOC in June.