Federal government taken to court over 11-year delay in protecting caribou habitat

Ecojustice, representing Stand, Wildsight, and Wilderness Committee, announced earlier this month it is taking the Government of Canada to court over its more than 11-year delay in fully mapping critical habitat for threatened Southern Mountain Caribou.

Our lawsuit asks the Federal Court to declare that the federal environment minister’s delay in completing critical habitat mapping — a necessary first step under the Species at Risk Act — is unreasonable and unlawful. A ruling could force action not only for caribou, but for many other endangered and threatened species still waiting for protection.

New research exposes Big Tech’s AI climate hoax: 74% of industry’s claims about AI’s climate benefits are unproven

The big tech industry’s claims about the climate benefits of artificial intelligence are a hoax, according to a new report released earlier this week by Stand and partners.

Authored by climate and energy analyst Ketan Joshi in partnership with environmental organizations including Stand, Beyond Fossil Fuels, Climate Action Against Disinformation, Friends of the Earth U.S., Green Screen Coalition, and Green Web Foundation, the research shows a staggering 74% of claims about AI’s climate benefits are unproven, serving the profits of the tech and fossil fuel industries, while downplaying the major climate harms of generative AI.

The report has secured early coverage in DeSmog, Fast Company, Politico, and The Guardian, among dozens of other outlets internationally.

The Big Tech industry wants to distract folks from the facts that AI data centers are throwing a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry, sucking up precious water resources, and raising electricity prices by promising future climate and environmental benefits. Join us in making our demands clear: AI data centers must run around the clock on renewable energy, or not at all.

New fashion roadmap calls on global brands to pay fair share for just energy transition in Bangladesh

As global temperatures breach the 1.5°C threshold and climate impacts intensify across supply chains, a new report released this month by Stand, Oxfam in Bangladesh, and the Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity sets out first-of-their-kind, brand-specific recommendations for how global apparel companies sourcing from Bangladesh must act to support a fast, fair, and worker-centered transition away from fossil fuels.

Developed through extensive consultations with garment manufacturers, worker representatives, civil society, and major international brands throughout 2025, the roadmap exposes a widening gap between brand climate commitments and the lived realities of workers on the frontlines of climate change. The report concludes that if even 10 major brands sourcing from Bangladesh acted on these recommendations, it would represent a significant step toward a faster, fairer decarbonization of one of the world’s most important manufacturing hubs.

Through HQ protests and closed-door meetings, customers and campaigners unite to demand a cleaner Amazon

This month, Stand’s transportation team rolled out our first public action by Prime Members for a Cleaner Amazon, a growing movement of Amazon’s most loyal customers demanding faster emissions cuts by the company. In response to Amazon’s 2025 earnings release, our team staged a protest at Amazon HQ in Seattle, calling for zero-emission last-mile deliveries.

Our latest action follows a January meeting that Stand staff and leaders from Prime Members for a Cleaner Amazon had with Amazon leadership to discuss our vision for fossil-free shipping and deliveries. One thing clear in the discussion was that our campaign is rattling them. Amazon company representatives committed to following up with us in February for continued dialogue, and we’re keeping up the pressure to make sure they know they’re not off the hook.

Calling out the financial risks of LNG expansion

The Canadian federal government led by Mark Carney has initiated processes to fasttrack major LNG expansion and will likely turn to using taxpayer dollars to incentivize and unlock private investment so tenuous projects can advance. Of course, this ignores the very real financial risks and market realities of the global LNG and gas world.

As our team continues to prioritize breaking through the storm of pro-LNG propaganda and disinformation, we were successful in securing two op-eds published in influential outlets this month about the economic perils of doubling down on gas and LNG in Canada.

A piece by Stand Climate Finance Program Director Richard Brooks, The questions Canadians should be asking amid hype over LNG projects, was published by the Vancouver Sun, and another by our esteemed colleagues Mark Kahlega of IEEFA and Olaf Weber of York University Business School, The world has too much LNG—so why is Canada fast-tracking more?, ran in The Hill Times.