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Natural Resources Canada has opened a call for proposals under the Energy Innovation Program’s Innovation Ecosystem Enablers stream — funding for the shared facilities and test centres that help de-risk emerging energy technologies.

Peter Massie

Cascade Institute’s Peter Massie, who leads the Institute’s Geothermal Energy Office, says the call is important chance to spur made-in-Canada energy innovation at a time when it’s needed most.

Massie likens the call to proposals to past projects in which Canadian energy expertise made big leaps. AOSTRA’s Underground Test Facility, for example, de-risked steam-assisted gravity drainage and helped grow in-situ oil sands production from near zero in the late 1980s to roughly 1.8 million barrels a day today. The U.S. Department of Energy’s FORGE site made breakthroughs in enhanced geothermal, helping Fervo Energy cut drilling costs and raise billions in private capital — what Massie calls “a perfect example of how public de-risking can crowd in private investment.” NASA’s wind-power test centres brought experts together across sectors to catalyze key elements of modern turbine design.

Test centres are especially valuable for subsurface technologies like geothermal where the cost and risk of drilling a well is the single biggest barrier facing innovators, Massie says.

“A shared facility lowers that barrier,” he explains, “and the data it produces validates the subsurface conditions for the projects that follow.”

The Innovation Ecosystem Enablers call is an important part of building that kind of infrastructure.

“If you’re working on innovative energy technologies, this call is worth a serious look,” says Massie.

See the call for proposals. 

 

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Registered nurses at California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., will hold an informational picket on Monday, June 29, to protest the administration’s decision to lay off essential unit support staff throughout the facility and to close the pediatric unit.

Yesterday, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy vetoed House Bill 25, led by Rep. Andy Josephson, that would have prohibited single-use polystyrene foodware in restaurants and across Alaska’s government. The bill, which passed the State Senate and House with bipartisan support this spring, would have aligned Alaska with growing action across the country, including similar policies in Washington and Oregon.

“The governor’s veto is a setback for Alaska and our oceans,” said Christy Leavitt, Senior Campaign Director at Oceana. “Alaska is on the frontlines of the global plastics crisis, and leaders like Rep. Josephson in the state legislature stepped up with a meaningful solution. This veto undermines bipartisan action to reduce single-use plastic pollution at the source, and will only put Alaska’s communities, wildlife, and waters in further jeopardy. We applaud the efforts of the state legislature and look forward to working with lawmakers to pass this important bill in the future to phase out plastic foam foodware.”

Plastic pollution is affecting Alaska’s ecosystems. Microplastics have been found in Southeast Alaskan glaciers, ocean waters, and Arctic sea ice. Polystyrene foam — one of the earliest plastics identified in the ocean — continues to contribute to the global plastics crisis. Ocean wildlife, including marine mammals, fish, and seabirds, often mistake foam for food, which can lead to malnutrition, starvation, and exposure to toxic chemicals. Plastic foam also poses risks to human health. Styrene, the primary component of polystyrene foam, is considered a probable carcinogen and can leach harmful chemicals into food and beverages.

Background

Plastic has been found in every corner of the world, and it’s one of the greatest threats facing our oceans today. An estimated 33 billion pounds of plastic enter the ocean every year — the equivalent of two garbage trucks full of plastic being dumped into the sea every minute. Plastic is in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and in our bodies. Plastic poses environmental and public health threats at every stage from extraction and production to use and disposal. It’s also one of the greatest contributors to climate change. In fact, if plastic were a country, it would be the fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.

One of the most problematic types of plastic is plastic foam. Oceana’s 2025 report “Plastic Foam Needs ‘To Go'” outlined the dangers behind single-use plastic foam, including that it’s made with toxic chemicals linked to cancer. Plastic foam is also one of the most common types of marine plastic pollution and was one of the first types of plastic discovered in the ocean. National polling released in 2025 found that 78% of registered U.S. voters support national policies to reduce single-use plastic foam.

A 2020 Oceana report revealed evidence of nearly 1,800 animals from 40 different species swallowing or becoming entangled in plastic in U.S. waters between 2009 and early 2020. Of those animals, a staggering 88% were from species listed as endangered or threatened with extinction under the Endangered Species Act.

Recycling will not solve the plastics crisis. In fact, less than 6% of plastic in the U.S. is recycled. To address the problem, companies must reduce the production and use of unnecessary single-use plastic and develop systems that refill and reuse packaging and foodware. Government policies must ensure that companies act.

In February 2025, Oceana released the results of a nationwide poll revealing that an overwhelming majority of U.S. voters support policies that reduce single-use plastics. Overall, 81% of U.S. voters support reducing the amount of plastic that is produced. The national online poll, conducted for Oceana by the nonpartisan polling company Ipsos using the probability-based KnowledgePanel®, surveyed 1,111 registered U.S. voters from December 13 to 15, 2024.

Included among the key findings:

• 85% of U.S. voters support increasing the use of reusable packaging and foodware.
• 82% of U.S. voters support protecting people in neighborhoods that are affected by pollution from nearby plastic production facilities.
• 80% of U.S. voters support requiring companies to reduce single-use plastic packaging and foodware.

To learn more about Oceana’s campaign to stop plastic pollution, please visit usa.oceana.org/plastics.

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Ellen Davies is head of programmes at the African Climate Foundation and is based in Kenya. Wole Hammond is programme officer for adaptation and resilience at the foundation, based in Nigeria.

For generations, African communities have lived on the frontlines of climate disruption, managing erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts and the slow erosion of their livelihoods, which depend on predictable seasons.

When the rains failed across Southern Africa in 2024, it was but the latest chapter of a crisis already long underway. During that season, maize crop failures of 40-80% devastated farming communities in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, where roughly 70% of people depend on rain-fed agriculture. Governments already stretched by debt were forced to raid development budgets, trading long-term growth for emergency relief.

Then came the floods. In early 2026, parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa received over a year’s worth of rain in days. More than 2 million people were affected. In East Africa, drought has displaced nearly 62,000 people in Somalia this year alone, with nearly one in four Somalis now facing acute food insecurity.

This is what climate change looks like on the ground – not parts per million or diplomatic jargon, but whether a school stays open after floods cut off the road, whether a clinic can function in extreme heat, whether a country can still invest in its future when every year brings another disaster bill.

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Africa as a continent contributes the least to global emissions yet bears a disproportionate share of the consequences. Nine of the ten countries most vulnerable to climate change are African. As livelihoods collapse and rural economies fail, migration pressures will intensify, driven by climate change intersecting with poverty, conflict and constrained opportunity.

Chronic under-funding

Europe is only now beginning to experience, in more limited form, what African communities have navigated for decades with far less fiscal space, thinner insurance coverage and fewer resources for recovery. With El Niño conditions confirmed and a “super” version of the naturally occurring weather pattern possible later this year, the pressure is set to intensify further.

In Africa, climate action is fundamentally a development challenge where adaptation and mitigation must go hand in hand. Building a solar grid and flood-proofing the road that serves it are not separate agendas. Yet for too long, the global climate conversation has prioritised mitigation while leaving adaptation – the work of protecting lives, livelihoods and economies in a changing climate – chronically under-funded.

The result is three compounding gaps. A visibility gap: much of Africa’s adaptation work remains under-documented and under-recognised in global climate narratives. A financing gap: capital does not flow at the scale or speed required to the people and institutions best placed to use it. And a decision-making gap: too many solutions are still designed elsewhere and imported into African contexts, rather than backing African-led platforms to scale what is already working.

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Solutions ready for finance

The solutions exist. Rwanda’s green investment fund has mobilised climate finance at national scale through its own systems. Egypt’s Nexus of Water, Food and Energy programme has shown how integrated planning can stretch limited resources across interdependent systems.

Zambia’s Presidential Irrigation Initiative is building climate-resilient food production from the ground up. In Pata, Senegal, a solar irrigation project has unlocked agricultural production and created jobs, demonstrating how integrated investments in water, energy and livelihoods can deliver resilience and development gains simultaneously.

In South Africa, the African Climate Foundation’s work with the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) is supporting district municipalities to assess their climate risks and develop fit-for-purpose Climate Action Plans, building adaptation capacity where it is needed most – at the local level.

These are not pilot projects waiting to be validated. They are working systems waiting for investment.

Closing the gaps requires a decisive shift in posture from global finance, philanthropy and development institutions. It means backing country-led platforms that can prepare, aggregate and finance adaptation projects. It means investing in place-based initiatives grounded in local knowledge.

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It means fostering intra- and inter-continental collaboration, so that lessons from Kigali inform decisions in Nairobi and innovations in Lagos reach communities in Dakar. And it means treating adaptation as core economic infrastructure, not charitable relief.

Invest now for future gains

The economic case is clear. Every dollar invested in climate adaptation returns an estimated four dollars in benefits on average – and up to five in the poorest economies. Under-investment in African adaptation is as economically irrational as it is morally unjust.

The world depends on Africa’s food systems, its young workforce – the majority of the continent’s population is under 25 – and its minerals. Several African countries supply a substantial share of the copper, cobalt and other critical materials underpinning the global clean energy transition.

Drought in Zambia has already shown how climate stress can disrupt hydropower, electricity supply and mining output. A transition that depends on African minerals cannot afford to ignore African climate resilience.

The world can continue to under-fund adaptation and pay repeatedly for emergencies, instability and lost development. Or it can invest now in the people, institutions and systems already doing the work on the ground in Africa, not in solutions imported from elsewhere.

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Africa has the agency, the knowledge and the platforms. What it needs is the finance to match. A super El Niño will not wait for consensus to form. Neither, frankly, should we.

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Nurses at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis and St. Joseph hospitals in Wichita, Kan., will hold a one-day strike on July 6 to protest the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ well-documented concerns about patient safety and workplace violence protection as part of contract negotiations.

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Continued fossil fuel expansion risks delaying electrification and prolonging exposure to volatile global energy markets 

By Mark Campanale, Carbon Tracker’s Founder and CEO 

As London prepares to host Climate Action Week, much of the discussion will focus on how to accelerate the energy transition through expanding renewable power generation and electrification. But building the new energy system is only half the challenge. 

The recent Santa Marta conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels reflected a growing recognition that managing contraction of the old energy system will require equal attention from policymakers and investors if we are to deliver a successful transition. 

The timing could hardly be more relevant. 

As conflict in the Middle East once again sends shockwaves through global energy markets, governments are facing renewed pressure to strengthen energy security. Predictably, many of the proposed solutions focus on expanding fossil fuel supply. 

Yet the lesson of recent years is not that countries need greater dependence on fossil fuels. It is that they need less. Time and again, geopolitical crises have exposed the vulnerabilities of energy systems built around internationally traded oil and gas. Price shocks originating thousands of miles away are transmitted directly into household bills, business costs and inflation rates. 

Yet despite repeated reminders of these vulnerabilities, the policy response often promotes more fossil fuel supply in the name of energy security. 

That response reflects an increasingly outdated view of transition risk. 

For years, much of the debate around fossil fuels centred on the risk of stranded assets. Investors were encouraged to consider whether oil and gas investments would lose value as the world transitioned towards cleaner energy systems. 

That question remains important. But a bigger risk is now emerging. Continued investment in fossil fuel expansion risks delaying the transition itself.  

The direction of travel in the global energy system is increasingly clear. Electrification, renewable energy and energy storage continue to improve in performance and cost. Across much of the world, they now represent the most attractive source of new energy investment. Yet while the destination is becoming clearer, the speed of the transition is not predetermined. 

Fossil fuel oversupply slows the transition by weakening the economics of electrification – suppressing energy prices, delaying infrastructure turnover and extending the life of incumbent systems. Rather than acting as a stabilising, transitional energy source they become a brake on transition progress. 

A successful transition requires fossil fuels to become the marginal supplier within a growing electricity-based economy rather than remaining the primary driver of energy supply and energy costs. 

This requires new economic and financial frameworks. For decades, markets have been organised around assumptions of production growth, reserve replacement and expanding supply. Yet the priorities of a successful transition are different: investment in electrification, grids, storage and industrial transformation; realistic assessments of long-term demand; stronger scrutiny of fossil fuel capital expenditure. 

This debate is particularly relevant in the UK. Calls for expanded North Sea drilling are frequently presented in terms of an “orderly transition”. But a transition that preserves stability for incumbent energy systems and markets in the short term may prove deeply disorderly for consumers, businesses and economies over the longer term. 

The real energy-security goal is to replace dependence on globally priced fuels with domestically produced clean electricity. Once built, clean power assets have very low operating costs and are largely insulated from the geopolitical shocks that repeatedly destabilise fossil fuel markets. This is why the transition is increasingly a competitiveness and cost-of-living story as much as a climate story. 

The prize for getting this right is not just lower emissions. It is lower and more stable energy costs, greater economic resilience, improved energy security and a more competitive economy. 

At a time of mounting geopolitical uncertainty, the objective should not be to prolong dependence on an increasingly volatile energy system. It should be to accelerate the emergence of a more resilient one. 

This op-ed was first published in Responsible Investor.

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Headline News:

• “US Renewables Reach 30% Generation Share” • Renewables provided 30% of US electricity in the first third of 2026 as output rose by over 10%. The SUN DAY Campaign said that output of coal-fired plants fell 11.6%, natural gas rose 2.8%, and nuclear power edged up 0.5%. Wind and solar combined delivered 21.8% of US electricity over the period. [reNews]

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• “Nuclear Reactors Taken Offline In France, As Extreme Heat Pushes River Temperatures Into Danger Zone” • EDF has taken several nuclear reactors offline this week, around 6.2 GW in total, and nearly 10% of its fleet, because of the heatwave in France. The heatwave is part of a weather system allowing heat to build in an area, without relief. [Renew Economy]
• “‘Climate Change Is Running Rampant’: Europe’s Heatwave ‘Virtually Impossible’ Fifty Years Ago” • “Continued fossil-fuel emissions are directly responsible for the disruption people are experiencing this week,” climate scientists warn. The extreme heat now scorching Europe would have been almost impossible just a few decades ago. [Euronews]
• “Distributed Solar Increased Pakistan’s Electricity Demand By A Fifth In Two Years” • Official data generally ignore distributed solar. A report from Ember is the first to reflect Pakistan’s energy statistics including its transformative distributed solar boom. It makes the case that distributed solar actually helped to increase electricity demand. [CleanTechnica]
• “Germany Awards 2.5 GW In Onshore Tender” • Germany has awarded support contracts to just under 2.5 GW of onshore wind capacity in its latest tender. The Federal Network Agency says that the May tender was “significantly oversubscribed,” with 628 bids totaling 6.4 GW of capacity. It awarded support contracts to 270 bidders with a total volume of 2,449 MW. [reNews]

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The United Left Platform and its constituent organizations (Workers Voice, Solidarity, Tempest, Speak Out Socialists, International Marxist Humanist Organization, Socialist Horizon) stand in solidarity with workers, activists and organizers in Minneapolis and Michigan facing egregious state repression for protesting the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities and the genocide in Gaza.

Fifteen activists and organizers in Minnesota involved with the city-wide protests against the ICE occupation of Minneapolis and St. Paul–including the murder of Alex Pretti and Renée Good—are facing new federal indictments. The charges are a massive escalation against the right to protest in the United States. While no charges have been brought against the state murderers of Pretti and Good, long-standing community activists face potential long-term prison sentences for standing with their community to defend it from state violence.

In Michigan, eight pro-Palestinian activists have been indicted, charged with conspiring to run a criminal intimidation campaign against University officials while protesting the genocide in Gaza. As reported by the Guardian newspaper, the indictment “appears to be among the more aggressive prosecutorial actions taken by the federal government against pro-Paletistinian activists.” (See Pro-Palestinian activists accused of intimidation campaign against University of Michigan officials.)

These indictments represent an attempt to shut down all opposition to the current U.S. state’s attacks on workers, students, immigrants and the oppressed. The ULP also underscores what has been written about the Minnesota case by the labor group Workers Resist:

These prosecutions must be viewed not simply as cases against fifteen individuals, but as an attack on the broader movement that emerged to defend immigrant communities and resist authoritarian policies. If the government succeeds in establishing that organizing, coordinating, and mobilizing communities in defense of their neighbors can be treated as criminal conduct, the implications will extend far beyond these defendants.
—Workers Resist Statement on the Federal Indictments of Anti-ICE Activists

The United Left Platform supports all efforts to defend the Minnesota Fifteen and the Michigan Eight. The ULP and its member groups stand in a tradition of organized self-defense that has been used historically by the U.S. Left when the state seeks to repress dissent, silence opposition, and criminalize free speech and protest. The ULP has actively supported the Committee to Defend Tom Alter, which has publicly defended Alter, a tenured University professor fired for speaking at a Socialism conference.

We call on activists, trade unionists, students, organizers and people everywhere to condemn these attacks on free speech and to defend the right of people everywhere to organize and defend themselves. An injury to one is an injury to all.

Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors or the Tempest Collective. For more information, see “About Tempest Collective.”
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Indonesia: "We will reject mining until death". Beutong Ateuh Communities Urge Aceh Parliament to Establish Special Committee as 87 Organizations Worldwide Call to Save the Leuser Ecosystem

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Beutong Ateuh Communities Urge Aceh Parliament to Establish Special Committee as 87 Organizations Worldwide Call to Save the Leuser Ecosystem

Nagan Raya, Aceh — Opposition to planned mining activities in Beutong Ateuh Banggalang Subdistrict, Nagan Raya Regency, Aceh, has intensified once again. Local communities, together with the APEL Green Aceh Foundation, officially submitted an open letter signed by 87 national and international organizations to Commission III of the Aceh House of Representatives (DPRA), urging the government to halt all mining permit processes that threaten the Leuser Ecosystem, indigenous communities’ livelihoods, and Aceh’s historical heritage.

The open letter symbolizes that the conflict over mining in Beutong Ateuh is no longer viewed merely as a local issue. It has become a matter of concern for global environmental networks that recognize the area’s extraordinary ecological and historical significance for both Indonesia and the world.

Speaking before Commission III of the DPRA, Rusli, a community leader from Beutong Ateuh, delivered a firm message reflecting years of resistance against extractive industries entering their territory.

“We, the people of Beutong Ateuh, reject mining until death. This position did not emerge today. We have consistently resisted since the struggle against PT EMM, and our message remains the same: reject mining permits in Beutong Ateuh,” said Rusli.

Eight Years of Resistance, Yet the State Has Failed to Listen

The opposition from Beutong Ateuh residents is not new. Since 2018, communities have consistently pursued various peaceful and constitutional forms of resistance.

Dozens of demonstrations have been held in Beutong Ateuh, Nagan Raya, Banda Aceh, and Jakarta. Traditional leaders, women, students, youth groups, and religious scholars have all actively participated in defending what they regard as their ancestral source of life.

At least twelve official petitions have been submitted to local governments, the Aceh Parliament, relevant ministries, and the President of the Republic of Indonesia.

Communities have also conducted public awareness campaigns through screenings of the documentary Pawang Uteun, which depicts the relationship between indigenous communities and forests and highlights the severe consequences if mining is imposed on the area.

After more than eight years of struggle, a fundamental question remains:

How many more times must the people of Beutong Ateuh declare their opposition before the state truly listens to its own citizens?

The Leuser Ecosystem, Beutong Ateuh. Photo by Yayasan APEL Green Aceh

Allegations of Non-Transparent Licensing Processes

During the meeting with the Aceh Parliament, residents also questioned recommendations issued by village and subdistrict officials supporting two mining companies, allegedly without consultation with affected communities.

Residents argue that the process ignored public participation and was conducted behind closed doors.

“We are disappointed. Village heads issued recommendations without consulting the people. The subdistrict head never involved customary leaders, religious leaders, or the wider community. Everyone has long known that the people reject companies that would destroy our forests and ecology. Why was everything done in secrecy?” Rusli asked.

These circumstances raise serious concerns that the licensing process in Beutong Ateuh is being carried out without democratic participation and may violate communities’ rights to information and to determine the future of their territory.

Disaster-Prone Area in the Heart of the Leuser Ecosystem

Syukur, Executive Director of APEL Green Aceh, emphasized that opposition to mining in Beutong Ateuh is grounded in strong ecological and legal considerations. According to him, the area has been designated under both the Aceh Spatial Planning Qanun and the Nagan Raya Spatial Planning Qanun as a disaster-prone zone, meaning it should not be allocated for large-scale mining activities.

Beutong Ateuh is also part of the Leuser Ecosystem Area (KEL), the last landscape in Sumatra where elephants, tigers, orangutans, and rhinoceroses can still coexist within a single intact ecosystem. The Leuser Ecosystem is internationally recognized as part of the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004. Yet threats to Beutong Ateuh extend beyond ecological concerns.

The area also contains important historical sites related to Aceh’s struggle, including:

• The mass grave of Cut Nyak Dien’s troops;
• The burial site of prominent Islamic scholar Tengku Alue Panah;
• The site of the massacre of students of Tengku Bantaqiah, one of the internationally recognized cases of serious human rights violations in Aceh.

“Destroying Beutong Ateuh means more than destroying forests. It means erasing Aceh’s history, threatening the Leuser Ecosystem, and creating disaster risks for future generations,” said Syukur.

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International support for the people of Beutong Ateuh has also come from environmental organizations around the world.

Among them is Marianne Klute from the international environmental organization Save the Rainforest (Rettet den Regenwald), who warned of the severe consequences for the Leuser Ecosystem if mining proceeds.

According to Marianne, Beutong Ateuh remains relatively intact precisely because local communities have protected and utilized natural resources sustainably.

“We are deeply concerned about the Leuser Ecosystem and its unique biodiversity, which appears to be sacrificed for economic gain. Nature in Beutong remains relatively intact because local communities use and protect it in environmentally friendly ways. Mining would destroy everything, trigger disasters, and violate human rights,” said Marianne Klute.

Her statement underscores that threats to Beutong Ateuh have become an international concern, as the area is considered an important part of global efforts to address climate change and biodiversity loss.

Beutong Ateuh was hit by severe floods in 2025, destroying many villages. An area prone to such disasters is not suitable for mining. Photo by Yayasan APEL Green Aceh

Communities Offer Alternatives: Indigenous Forests and Sustainable Economies

APEL Green Aceh stressed that the people of Beutong Ateuh are not merely saying “no.” For generations, communities have relied on agriculture, non-timber forest products, traditional plantations, and customary forest management systems. These economic practices have demonstrated that prosperity can be achieved without destroying the landscape.

Therefore, APEL Green Aceh is urging the Aceh Government to recognize Beutong Ateuh as an indigenous forest area and remove it from mining concession maps.

“Beutong Ateuh has proven that communities can prosper without mining. Forests provide legitimate and sustainable livelihoods that have been protected for generations. We urge the government to remove this area from mining concessions and designate it as indigenous forest,” Syukur stated. Communities Call on Aceh Parliament to Establish a Special Investigative Committee

In their final demand, local communities and APEL Green Aceh called on Commission III of the Aceh Parliament to immediately establish a Special Committee (Pansus) to investigate all mining permit processes in Beutong Ateuh.

They are seeking a comprehensive investigation to determine whether the licensing procedures have complied with the law or merely served the interests of a small number of actors without the consent of affected communities.

“We urge Commission III of the Aceh Parliament to establish a special committee on mining permits in Beutong Ateuh. Investigate whether these permits truly follow legal procedures or merely serve particular interests without public participation. Do not allow the future of
Aceh’s forests to be decided behind closed doors,” Syukur stressed.

Amid the global climate crisis, the struggle of the people of Beutong Ateuh has become a
symbol of a larger question:

Will the state stand with the people who protect the forests, or will it pave the way for
investments that sacrifice Aceh’s history, environment, and future?

 

The Federal Court has today delivered its decision in an important case brought to protect Northern Territory water from fracking - leaving serious concerns that national environment laws remain too weak to safeguard groundwater from the risks posed by unconventional gas projects.

Amid an unprecedented European heatwave, a Paris court ruled on Thursday that France’s biggest fossil fuel firm TotalEnergies has not fully accounted for its contribution to climate change or identified all the ways it could limit it. 

A group of non-profit organisations and local authorities filed the claim in 2020 under France’s then-new duty of vigilance law. This requires all large businesses headquartered in France and international corporations with a significant presence there to set out a clear plan to prevent human rights violations and environmental damage – even among their subsidiaries.  

“It’s a very big win for the whole climate movement,” said Justine Ripoll, head of campaigns for Notre Affaire à Tous, one of the NGOs that brought the claim.

She said the judges made clear that companies have climate obligations reflecting their impact on global emissions, and added that the ruling shows “lobbying to undermine legislation won’t have the impact corporations could expect”.

The ruling marks another legal victory for climate activists, after the International Court of Justice issued a landmark advisory opinion last year finding that countries can be held responsible under international law for breaching their climate obligations, including by expanding fossil fuel production. In May, the UN General Assembly backed the ruling and called on countries to comply with it.

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Total’s climate lawsuit

As part of their claim, climate activists and local authorities wanted the court to force TotalEnergies to take stronger action aligning with the 1.5°C warming threshold in the Paris Agreement, including by stopping new fossil fuel projects and reducing production levels. 

The lawsuit claim was ruled inadmissible in 2023, but this was overturned the following year. However no public bodies except the city of Paris were allowed to join. A court in Paris finally heard the claim on its merits in March.

Two weeks before the hearing, the French public prosecutor’s office said it agreed with TotalEnergies that the scope of duty of vigilance law did not extend to climate change. But the court had a different view, saying climate risks and impacts do fall within the law’s scope. 

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Coming two days after France recorded its hottest-ever day, the court said the law is not intended to make the companies concerned responsible for all climate risks – resulting from all human activity since the industrial revolution – but they must “act according to their situation”.  

In TotalEnergies’ case, its oil and gas activities release greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere with resulting negative climate impacts, which must be properly identified in its vigilance plan.  

The court also explicitly said that the plan must include scope 3 emissions from the use of products and services by customers, “due in particular to the inherent link between oil and gas production and the combustion of products by users”. This is in line with domestic and international court rulings across the world in recent years.  

TotalEnergies was given six months to update the plan. After that, the court will scrutinise whether the measures are adequate, with a hearing already scheduled for 21 January 2027. 

Milestone for climate accountability

Théa Bonfour, senior advocacy and litigation officer at NGO Sherpa, which was also involved in the case, said it was a “first important milestone” but she warned that the tribunal will still have to exercise its power to analyse the plan’s details. 

However, the court did not agree to a request by the NGOs and the City of Paris for TotalEnergies to completely stop all of its new fossil fuel projects or to cut production by 37% for oil and 25% for gas by 2030.  

In a statement, TotalEnergies noted this “with satisfaction”. It said it would update its plan to include scope 3 emissions but argued that changes in its customers’ emissions “also depend on their own investment and consumption choices, such as purchasing an electric vehicle, a heat pump, or using biofuels”.

The company could still appeal the decision but, even if it does, it still has to comply with the ruling while the process is ongoing. 

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Sébastien Duyck, senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, said the ruling is a “key step towards stronger corporate climate accountability”.  

“The inclusion of the whole range of emissions attributable to TotalEnergies’ activities in the sphere of responsibility of the company is a critical legal step validating other recent judicial decisions,” said Duyck. “This constitutes a stringent rebuttal of the argument that the responsibility lies solely with consumers.” 

Christina Eckes, professor of European law at the University of Amsterdam, said the ruling had increased pressure on polluting companies to justify their business decisions.

“It’s not just TotalEnergies. When you look at the sustainability plans of fossil fuel industries in Europe, they’re mostly scope 1 and 2; you can’t claim to have a sustainability plan if you’re only talking about 10% of your emissions.” 

Influential ruling

The Total decision has significant implications for other ongoing lawsuits. 

The most important is that brought by a Belgian farmer who is bringing a climate damages claim against TotalEnergies. A decision on the merits was postponed until 9 September so that judges could see the outcome of the French ruling. 

A separate duty of vigilance case against TotalEnergies in relation to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline in Uganda is still ongoing at the Paris Judicial Court, after a similar earlier claim was dismissed in 2023. The $4-billion project has been controversial due to its social and environmental impacts.

This article was updated on 26 June 2026 to include TotalEnergies comment

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