Tell Canada’s Justin Trudeau: Close the logging loopholes and save the boreal forest!

Canada's majestic boreal forest stores twice as much carbon as the world's oil reserves, making it essential to fighting climate change. But widespread industrial logging is destroying a million acres of the boreal every year. And while Canada should be a world leader in the fight against climate change, the Canadian government uses emissions accounting gimmicks and regulatory loopholes to let the logging industry off the hook for its carbon footprint, undermining efforts to protect the climate-saving boreal — this needs to end.

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Tell Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to close the logging loopholes destroying the boreal forest and fulfill the country’s commitments to act on climate change!

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Canada's vast and majestic boreal forest is home to Indigenous communities and threatened wildlife. It also stores twice as much carbon as the world's oil reserves, making it essential in fighting climate change.

But widespread industrial logging for forest products like toilet paper and lumber is destroying a million acres of the boreal every year. The Canadian government uses emissions accounting gimmicks and regulatory loopholes to let the logging industry off the hook for its carbon footprint, undermining efforts to protect the climate-saving boreal — and it needs to end.

Canada should be a world leader in the fight against climate change, but the Canadian government must act to protect the boreal forest if they're serious about tackling our climate crisis.

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Subject Close logging loopholes destroying the boreal forest

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau:

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Canada's boreal forest is a vitally important resource in the global fight against climate change, 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 Canada's logging industry is rapidly clear-cutting the climate-saving boreal. And your government's efforts to achieve the nation’s carbon pollution goals are being undermined by emissions accounting gimmicks and regulatory loopholes that let the logging industry off the hook for its climate footprint, worsening our climate crisis.

Canada should be a world leader in the fight against climate change, but if your government wants to stay on track with its climate progress, then it must reform these accounting gimmicks and loopholes. It must also work with Indigenous communities to protect, restore, and steward the boreal forest.

This is your opportunity to make Canada a global leader in our climate change fight while helping to secure a safe, healthy future for us all. Please take action right away to reform Canada’s destructive logging industry carve-outs and protect the climate-critical boreal forest.

Thank you.

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