The countries that have achieved the most successful energy transitions share a common feature that challenges Dr Wills’ premise: they succeeded through cross-party consensus, not single-party dominance. The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Employment reports document that clean energy sectors now employ approximately 35 million workers globally, compared to 32 million in fossil fuels. Advertisement 2 of 9Clean energy employment grew five per cent between 2019-2022 while fossil fuel employment declined four per cent. Research compiled by Skeptical Science, drawing onmultiple peer-reviewed studies, finds that “the renewable energy sector generates more jobs than the fossil fuel-based energy sector per unit of energy delivered” – roughly twice as many jobs per megawatt. What determines energy transition success is not single-party dominance but: policy stability over decades, state capacity to implement, low corruption, and cross-factional consensus.