A Year of
Never Impossible

We believe there is an opportunity to stop the destruction while still achieving the growth Indonesia’s government seeks. The country’s palm oil, paper, and rubber companies have, for more than a decade, been successfully channeling their continued development onto the more than 20 million acres of previously deforested or degraded land instead of destroying pristine ecosystems. We think a similar solution exists now.

But instead, this Food and Energy Estates project threatens to undermine all that hard-won progress – as well as President Prabowo Subianto’s own climate pledges, including a net zero emissions target by 2060 – if the bulldozing continues at its current pace.

In the aftermath of devastating climate- and deforestation-exacerbated floods that claimed more than 1,000 lives in Sumatra in late 2025, President Prabowo threatened fines and suspensions for any companies that had been operating in breach of environmental permits and acknowledged the role climate change had played in the disaster (right).

In the weeks since, he has continued to acknowledge the risks of environmental destruction, telling the World Economic Forum in early 2026 that Indonesia wants “to be a good neighbor, a good responsible citizen of the world, protecting the environment, protecting nature. We must not destroy nature, we must live with nature.”

Mighty Earth will continue to work to convince President Prabowo to seize this moment, put the Food Estates project on pause, and help Indonesia fulfill its potential as a climate and nature superpower.

The meat industry causes more climate pollution than all the cars, trucks, ships, and planes in the world combined. A major source of this pollution is methane – a short-lived but super-polluting greenhouse gas. Because methane is roughly 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20 year-period, implementing rapid cuts to methane emissions is one of the fastest levers to slow near-term warming. Mighty Earth and our allies have been advocating for retailers – and the meat and dairy companies that supply them – to take responsibility for accounting for methane, disclosing their emissions and enacting plans to reduce them.

In 2025, Mighty Earth’s corporate advocacy and engagement led directly to two world firsts on methane. Working alongside Changing Markets Foundation, we released research showing that none of the world’s 20 largest supermarket chains were disclosing their methane emissions. We then published an in-depth follow-up report focused on Ahold Delhaize, which, with more than 7,600 stores across 10 countries and 2024 revenue of nearly $100 billion, is one of the world’s largest supermarket companies.

Mighty Earth Netherlands Director Jurjen de Waal presented to Ahold Delhaize’s CEO at their 2025 shareholder meeting, and we worked with Dutch think tank QuestionMark on a “Green Superlist” that ranks retailers on environmental impact.

The pressure paid off. In July, Albert Heijn, the largest retailer in The Netherlands and the flagship Dutch brand of Ahold Delhaize, became the first major supermarket to publicly disclose its methane emissions, reporting that methane accounted for about 14% of its total climate pollution in 2024.

The second major breakthrough came at COP30 in Belém, Brazil. There, at a Mighty Earth event at the Super Pollutant Solutions Pavilion, Brazil’s Marfrig became the world’s first meat company to disclose its Scope 3 methane emissions and outline a methane reduction strategy, including a methane reduction target of 33% by 2035. This announcement built on the company’s previous commitment to eliminate all deforestation and ecosystem destruction throughout their supply chains.

While transparency is only the first step, it’s an important one. For years, companies have claimed that calculating their methane emissions was too complex. Transparency from retailers like Albert Heijn and meat companies like Marfrig will give Mighty Earth momentum to push for additional disclosures throughout the meat and retail industries in 2026.

Mighty Earth will continue to push these companies to go beyond disclosure and take concrete action to actually reduce their methane emissions, including boosting sales of plant-based alternatives and investing in alt proteins (in the case of retailers) and setting overall methane and climate targets.

In 2025, Mighty Earth launched our first official rewilding campaign in the United States.

Mountain lions, also known as pumas or cougars, and best-known locally in Vermont as catamounts, are a keystone species whose return would offer tremendous benefits to the forest ecosystems of the northeast United States.

Mighty Earth hired our first Rewilding Director, Renee Seacor, and kicked off our “Bring Catamounts Home” effort in Vermont with the help of the stellar volunteers on our Rewilding Advisory Board.In 2025, we also launched a new online home for the campaign and have begun holding meetings with policymakers, senior political leaders, scientific experts, and state agency officials.

Renee has been hosting community events across the northeast U.S., including a talk from advisory board member Beth Pratt in Burlington, Vermont, and a series of “Catamount Conversations” in different communities to energize supporters, recruit volunteers, and answer common questions throughout the region.

Our communications team brought national attention to the campaign through major articles in The Guardian and The Washington Post.

In 2026, Mighty Earth will continue to build on this momentum across the northeast United States, paving the way for a catamount reintroduction guided by community input and the best available science.