As our team at Stand.earth enters 2026, we hold firm to our commitment to climate progress and our hopes for our collective future, even as we grieve alongside our communities where fear and loss hang heavy in the air.

In strengthening our resolve to protect the people and places we love, we continue to rise shoulder-to-shoulder with Indigenous leaders, frontline communities, and workers to fight back against authoritarians who are focused on preserving profits for fossil fuel elites and billionaires at the expense of ordinary people and a livable climate.

We know what we deserve: a world where all of us are free from climate chaos, living with dignity secured, basic needs met, and opportunities to thrive. This is why we must advance a just transition to sustainable energy that does not reproduce conflict, coercion, or exploitation, but rather is grounded in rights, peaceful cooperation, and equitable governance.

We believe that hope is best expressed through action. So read on for how we are growing our efforts to hold corporations and governments accountable in 2026, and continuing to build a climate-safe future that benefits our planet and all of its people.

Climate finance campaign opposing the financing of new oil and gas projects, and fighting for climate-safe investments of retirement funds

Our climate finance campaign kicked off 2026 with an exclusive analysis revealing that banks are financing at least $124 billion in just nine U.S. fossil fuel companies set to profit from this occupation of Venezuela.

Looking ahead to the rest of the year, our climate finance team is accelerating work to increase awareness amongst financiers, investors, and the public about the financial risks of new and existing LNG projects. It’s clear that these realities, which our campaign has been influential in calling out for years, are coming to fruition, as evidenced by industry trends including recent news that Shell and Mitsubishi Corporation have hired banks to sell their stakes in Canada’s only operating LNG facility, LNG Canada.

Our team will also be shining a brighter spotlight on the hundreds of billions of dollars in private retirement funds that are invested in coal, oil, and gas companies. We’ll be leveraging all the tools at our disposal, including litigation, to disentangle our futures and our hard-earned wages from the industries driving the climate crisis.

Lastly, we will continue to campaign to ensure that major banks put in place policies limiting financing of destructive oil and gas projects in the Amazon rainforest.

“Despite the awfulness of a new oil war and shifting geopolitics to grab resources, we are going into 2026 with hope that we will be able to stop the expansion of new LNG projects in B.C., and convince banks and pensions to not finance them anywhere. We are also jazzed up to expand awareness of private retirement funds — which safeguard the deferred salaries of millions of workers — being invested in money-losing, climate-change-causing fossil fuels and pushing these to invest in climate-safe investments instead”

— Richard Brooks
Director of Climate Finance

Fashion campaign collaborating with workers and allies to advance a just transition in Bangladesh

In the coming months, Stand’s fashion campaign will advance work in Bangladesh – the second-largest garment exporting country in the world – to develop a just transition roadmap for brands with Bangladesh-based suppliers. Building on collaborations initiated last year with Bangladesh worker representatives, civil society organizations, and suppliers, our efforts in 2026 will leverage pressure on and from key brands in the region to advance decarbonization and measurably reduce emissions. Garment workers, the majority of whom are women, are extremely vulnerable to job precarity, labor rights infringements, and the increasing harms of climate-induced extreme temperature changes and disasters.

“Looking forward to 2026 for this campaign, we are demanding actions that will genuinely benefit the communities, the workers, and the people living around producing areas and factories, and the rest of the nations that are impacted by climate change and by the garment industry.”

— Rachel Kitchin
Senior Corporate Climate Campaigner

Oil and gas campaign pushing back against growth of fracking and LNG development

Keeping a close eye on the fossil fuel sector as Canada’s largest and fastest growing source of climate pollution, our oil and gas campaign is organizing to get the country back on track towards reducing emissions in line with science. In 2026, our team will be continuing our work to break the hold that big oil and gas companies have on politics, and ensure that taxpayer money is not handed out to fossil fuel billionaires. Our team will also be launching a new campaign in 2026 to get the Canadian government to end the export of the dirtiest form of coal through our ports.

“There are big decisions that are going to be made about whether some of these projects are going to go forward, like the Tilbury LNG terminal in the Vancouver area. I’m looking forward to getting up in the faces of folks who are making bad decisions with sassy creative tactics to make them understand the impact they’re having, and understand how many people are out there watching them and holding them to account.”

— Sven Biggs
Oil and Gas Campaign Director

Big tech campaign building power with local communities in the face of data center growth

Our big tech campaign is calling for accountability and a commitment to sustainability from hyperscalers like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta in the face of the rapid and reckless growth of fossil fuel infrastructure to meet the demand of data centers. Alongside impacted communities, the campaign is pushing back against the dangerous impacts of data center build out and amplifying local concerns to put pressure on Microsoft in particular to deliver on key commitments to community benefit and renewable energy, and influence other companies to meet the same standards.

“For 2026, there are going to be a lot of chances for us to really put an imprint on this moment in a way that pushes us away from building out more fossil fuels and toward building out more renewable energy and listening to community demands and taking their concerns seriously. Power has been building and there’s a real chance to have that pay off in a concrete way — whether it’s Microsoft or Google, Meta, or Amazon — putting them in a position where they have to respond and put their money where their mouth is to do right by these communities and right by the climate.”

— Nathan Taft
Senior Campaigner

Transportation campaign targeting emissions reductions across freight ecosystem

Building on years of work advocating for Amazon to reduce its climate pollution, our transportation campaign will expand its work this year to drive emissions reductions across the freight ecosystem. With freight and delivery transportation having emerged as one of the largest and fastest-growing sources of transportation-sector emissions, our Deliver Change team will be working to drive the steep and near-term reductions required in heavy-duty and light-duty trucking.

“What feels really important in 2026 is that we as a movement and we as people don’t find ourselves resigning, but we connect instead with what can be accomplished and we try to find ways to express that. Whether it’s joining an action with Stand or Deliver Change, or just talking to your neighbor about the ways that emissions and pollution are impacting you, I think that kind of work can be really healing in these times when we’re feeling dissuaded from progress.”

— Joshua Archer
Senior Global Corporate Campaigner