By Mathilda D’Silva | Founder & CEO, Ocean Purpose Project, Singapore Soldiers and firefighters work on containing a wildfire in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan province, on 13 October 2026. Photograph: Muda Sagala/AFP/Getty Images From Indonesia's devastating forest and peatland fires to the plastic waste accumulating in our oceans, the global energy transition faces an uncomfortable question: are we solving one environmental crisis by creating another? After years of trying to