As World Rainforest Week comes to an end, Calvin Klein, Coach, Marc Jacobs and Versace are failing to help us celebrate. 

These leading fashion brands are implicated in Indonesian rainforest destruction through their purchasing of paper shopping bags from Asia Pulp and Paper’s (APP) affiliate Pak 2000. We need your help to tell these fashion and retail brands to stop doing business with some of Indonesia’s worst rainforest destroyers.

Indonesia's rainforests comprise some of the most biodiverse forests on the planet and are home to millions of Indigenous people whose cultures and livelihoods are directly dependent on natural forests. However these forests are currently being cut down at an unprecedented rate to supply cheap commodities like paper and palm oil to international markets. This is having catastrophic effects on the climate too. Greenhouse gas emissions from forest destruction have made Indonesia the world's third largest greenhouse gas emitter, after China and the U.S.

Asia Pulp & Paper is a leading driver of Indonesian rainforest destruction for paper. By doing business with APP's affiliate PAK 2000, Calvin Klein, Coach, Marc Jacobs, and Versace are wrapping their products in rainforest destruction.

Other leading companies, including Billabong, H&M, OKA, and Osborne & Little, have cut ties with APP and its affiliates and switched to more environmentally-friendly alternatives. If these companies can do it, there is no reason why Calvin Klein, Coach, Marc Jacobs, and Versace cannot follow their footsteps.

We can’t delay - Indonesia's rainforests are being lost at an alarming rate. If we don't act quickly, these forests will be lost forever and climate chaos will be that much closer. Your action today will help send a strong message to Calvin Klein, Coach, Marc Jacobs, and Versace that it's unacceptable to do business with the worst rainforest destroyers in Indonesia.

Help us move fashion forward by telling these companies that Indonesia’s rainforests are too important to be turned into disposable shopping bags. Thanks for all that you do.

Source: Rainforest Action Network