Dear NRDC Activist,

The science is clear: Solving our climate crisis depends not just on ending our reliance on fossil fuels, but on protecting the forests that are critical to our future.

Canada's majestic boreal forest is especially indispensable to the climate fight, storing twice as much carbon as the world's oil reserves. It's also home to Indigenous communities and is a critical refuge for threatened wildlife.

But widespread industrial logging is destroying more than a million acres of the boreal every single year — much of this in never-before-logged primary forests. These ancient forests then end up in Procter & Gamble's Charmin brand of toilet paper — and many other tissue products found on shelves are made in part from climate-critical forests like the boreal.

Why? Because Canada's government has regulatory loopholes that allow the logging industry to continue clear-cutting irreplaceable forests with zero consequences.

Prime Minister Trudeau has said that he wants Canada to be a global leader in the fight against climate change. But to do that, the Canadian government must close these dangerous loopholes!

We're calling on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to close logging loopholes that threaten the vital boreal forest and are undermining the global climate fight and Canada's climate leadership. Will you join us?

Trudeau's government has committed to protecting 30 percent of lands in Canada by 2030 and supporting Indigenous communities' efforts to protect, restore, and steward their ancestral lands by making new investments in Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs).

But the government is undermining these vital conservation efforts by continuing to use emissions accounting gimmicks and regulatory loopholes to let the country's logging industry continue destroying the boreal with no accountability for its carbon footprint.

For example, the government has selectively excluded certain forests from its carbon footprint calculations in order to obscure the logging industry's climate impact by more than 80 million tons of carbon dioxide each year.

This must end: Demand that Prime Minister Trudeau close logging loopholes that are destroying the boreal forest and fulfill the country's commitments to act on climate change!

We can no longer afford to have Canada bury its head in the sawdust.

The Canadian government must stay on track with its climate progress by protecting the boreal. That starts with reforming these accounting gimmicks and loopholes to accurately report the climate impacts of logging and hold logging companies accountable for their destruction.

Please use your voice to help protect the vital boreal forest.

Thank you for standing with us in defense of the boreal — and the planet — during this critical time.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Skene
Natural Climate Solutions Policy Manager, International Program, NRDC

P.S. After you've signed the petition, please read my latest blog on how Canada's accounting gimmicks mask the logging industry's toll on our climate on NRDC.org.