Documents

Cut and Run: Kimberly-Clark's legacy of environmental devastation and social conflict in the Kenogami Forest

17 April 2008

Kimberly-Clark holds itself up as an exemplary corporate citizen, a company doing its utmost to protect the environment and benefit communities. But Cut and Run reveals that the company’s policies and practices have caused severe environmental damage and social conflict in Canada’s Boreal Forest.

Forest Views, Spring 2008

16 April 2008

The latest issue of Greenpeace newsletter Forest Views gives readers an inside look at the current happenings in our prized Boreal forests, in particular B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest, the largest intact, coastal temperate rainforest left in the world. Forest Views aims to give customers and investors in B.C.’s wood products an in-depth look at the behind-the-scenes conservation work involved in preserving Canada’s forests. In this issue, learn about the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement announced on February 7, 2006—the largest rainforest protection package in Canadian history—and read about its implementation and steps other parties are taking to make this conservation commitment a reality.

Turning Up the Heat : Global Warming and the Degradation of Canada's Boreal Forest

10 April 2008

A new report released by Greenpeace on the 10th of April 2008 finds that logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest is making global warming worse by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage. It also finds that logging makes the forest more susceptible to global warming impacts like wildfires and insect outbreaks, which in turn release more greenhouse gases. Here is a selection of some pictures that can be found in the report.

Executive summary
Executive summary in french
Technical report

Combating Climate Change Through Boreal Forest Conservation: Resistance, Adaptation, and Mitigation

10 April 2008

A new report released by Greenpeace on the 10th of April 2008 finds that logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest is making global warming worse by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage. It also finds that logging makes the forest more susceptible to global warming impacts like wildfires and insect outbreaks, which in turn release more greenhouse gases. Here is a selection of some pictures that can be found in the report.

• Turning Up the Heat - Public report
• Turning Up the Heat - Public report, summary
• Turning Up the Heat - Public report, summary, in french

Executive summary - Turning Up the Heat : Global Warming and the Degradation of Canada's Boreal Forest

10 April 2008

A new report released by Greenpeace on the 10th of April 2008 finds that logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest is making global warming worse by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage. It also finds that logging makes the forest more susceptible to global warming impacts like wildfires and insect outbreaks, which in turn release more greenhouse gases. Here is a selection of some pictures that can be found in the report.

Full report
Technical report
Executive summary in french

How the palm oil industry is cooking the climate

08 November 2007

Every year, 1.8 billion tonnes (Gt) of climate changing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are released by the degradation and burning of Indonesia’s peatlands – 4% of global GHG emissions from less than 0.1% of the land on earth.

This report shows how, through growing demand for palm oil, the world’s largest food, cosmetic and biofuel industries are driving the wholesale destruction of peatlands and rainforests. These companies include Unilever, Nestlé and Procter & Gamble, who between them account for a significant volume of global palm oil use, mainly from Indonesia and Malaysia.

Consuming the Boreal Forest: the chain of destruction from logging companies to consumers

14 August 2007

Greenpeace names the companies behind the destruction of the Boreal forest in Canada - tracing the "chain of destruction" from companies to consumers.

Advertisement in the Globe and Mail

18 February 2007

This advertisement ran in the Globe and Mail newspaper in February 2007. The advertisement urges Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to protect the Boreal forest, and is signed by the following Canadians: Margaret Atwood, Robert Bateman, Ken Danby, Jian Ghomeshi, Graeme Gibson, Barbara Gowdy, Sarah Harmer, Cathy Jones, Thomas King, Yann Martel, Robert Munsch, James Raffan, Clayton Ruby and Dr. David Suzuki.

Kleercut advertisement in International Herald Tribune

21 December 2006

On Thursday, December 21, 2006 Greenpeace brought European public attention to Kimberly-Clark’s clearcutting of Canada’s Boreal forest through an ad in the International Herald Tribune.