Are we too focused on who is winning the climate transition?
The more I’ve observed the largest players shape the climate transition, the more I’ve noticed something happening beyond the headlines: their movements are also creating opportunities for smaller, less visible pioneers to advance in parallel. We tend to equate visibility with significance. The companies, technologies, investments, and projects receiving the most attention can become proxies for the transition itself, while innovation is often distributed across interconnected systems, energy, infrastructure, markets, and humanitarian supply chains. That creates a question worth exploring: what are we missing when we focus on who appears to be winning, rather than on what their movements are making possible elsewhere? If the climate transition is less a race between dominant players and more a system of distributed movements, where is innovation accumulating that we cannot yet see? Of course, this is a personal observation rather than a predetermined conclusion, and an invitation to look at the transition from a different scale.
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