Paige Curtis

A just clean energy transition is broadly understood as the process of placing people, workers, and communities at the center of the shift to affordable and modern energy systems. Since May 2025, Kinetic Coalition has collaborated with partners to develop a proof of concept for a new asset class of high integrity “energy transition credits”

This year’s COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil, was billed as the “implementation COP”: an inflection point when the Paris Agreement process pivots from negotiation to action. And indeed, throughout my time in Belém, there was an overwhelming focus on action – nowhere more than in the side events and conversations I had about mobilizing

Amidst economic and political headwinds that challenge clean technology deployment, the role of voluntary corporate climate action has become more critical than ever. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) and the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the two standards most widely used by companies to account for and report their climate action, are undergoing major updates.