Dear NRDC Activist,

Blistering heat, extreme wildfires, and devastating floods caused by unchecked climate change continue to ravage the planet. If we're to combat the climate crisis before it's too late, it's urgent we protect one of our greatest assets in this fight: Canada's boreal forest.

This majestic, climate-critical forest stores huge amounts of climate-busting carbon pollution in its trees and soils, and it is home to hundreds of Indigenous communities and the iconic boreal caribou. But the boreal is being cut at a dizzying rate — in part to make throwaway toilet paper for multi-billion dollar corporations like Procter & Gamble (P&G) and its Charmin brand.

Every minute, a small city block's worth of boreal forest is clearcut, in part to produce Charmin. P&G is fueling this tree-to-toilet pipeline which threatens our climate — it's disastrous and it must be stopped.

On October 12th, P&G will hold its annual shareholder meeting and we need to raise the alarm and get this on the agenda. At a time when more and more consumers are demanding companies switch to sustainable methods of production, we need to be loud and clear in our demand that P&G stop flushing away our forests.

Will will you join us in speaking up for the boreal? Tell Procter & Gamble CEO David S. Taylor to stop this tree-to-toilet pipeline, take important steps for our climate, and help protect one of the last great forests on Earth!

Far too many toilet paper products found on shelves are made in part from climate-critical forests like Canada's boreal forest. And P&G leads the pack, rejecting demands from consumers and shareholders alike to end its reliance on trees from climate-critical intact forests like the boreal.

In fact, last year, 67% of voting shareholders supported a resolution calling for the company to work to eliminate deforestation and intact forest degradation from its supply chains — the first time a proposal related to forest loss passed in any corporation's history. Yet, P&G continues to drag its feet.

There's no time to waste: Sign the petition ahead of P&G's shareholder's meeting and let them know that you won't stand for any more destruction of the boreal to make toilet paper.

This call for P&G to get serious about its climate responsibilities comes as President Biden is pushing hard to get his game-changing Build Back Better climate action plan passed in Congress, and as world leaders prepare to descend on the next international climate meeting — COP26 — in Scotland.

Our planet has no time for the largest companies in the world to take half-measures and the boreal can't wait for P&G to get with the program on its own. And it all starts with a groundswell of petitions ahead of P&G's annual shareholder meeting.

Procter & Gamble has the power to change things. It's just up to us to make sure the company follows through.

Demand P&G get with the program, heed the calls of consumers, shareholders, scientists — and you — to help save our planet from climate collapse by ending their use of climate-critical intact boreal forest for toilet paper.

Thank you for taking a stand in this fight.

Sincerely,

Shelley Vinyard
NRDC, Boreal Corporate Campaign Manager