A few weeks before our launch, I watched my two young children toss small pieces of chalk at our shed door. As they laughed at their game of leaving tiny marks of color behind, I thought of how I want to provide my children with a world where they can live vibrant, fulfilled lives. Doing so requires my generation to leave its own positive mark — a wider, more indelible one — on the trajectory of our climate.

The victories for clean energy in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act didn’t happen by accident. They reflect years of leadership towards action on climate policy, dedicated bipartisan collaboration, and a shared commitment to good policy for a healthier planet. But even if these laws are implemented to the letter, our country won’t achieve the emissions cuts we need — the estimated gigaton of emissions reductions in 2030 from these laws is insufficient, and many of the innovative technologies to deepen decarbonization aren’t yet ready for market.

BIL and IRA represent progress but not resolution on the energy dilemmas that define our era: How do we meet rising energy demand quickly, cleanly, and reliably? How do we have a thriving industrial sector while reducing its emissions? And what sensible permitting reforms can help get clean energy built — not only where it’s needed, but where it’s wanted?

More than two years after enactment, we still lack solutions to these puzzles. Rigid ideologies, ephemeral policy proposals, and unrealistic expectations about what is necessary or feasible are holding back the type of productive negotiations that result in meaningful, durable policy changes. What is needed now is the leadership of the next generation of energy and climate thinkers who can unlock and champion the next era of clean energy policy.

We founded Clean Tomorrow to provide this direction. Here, we focus on securing lasting climate progress by turning policy ambition into action. We must catalyze rapid changes that will accelerate the innovation and growth of clean energy.

We’ve been at this long enough to know that the most direct path to reducing the severity of climate change is through policy solutions that speak to a broad swath of America. Clean Tomorrow is pragmatic, non-partisan, and non-ideological. As a result, our network of alliances will be diverse, nimble, and based on a shared commitment to clean energy progress — not to whichever political party claims ownership over any particular idea. The coalitions that worked yesterday might not work tomorrow. Just as political and policy environments evolve, so will our strategy.

The clean energy ecosystem is evolving, and our adaptive model will fit the times. Climate policy progress has created profitable companies whose future depends on even more climate policy progress. This influx of new players has reduced the relative weight of traditional policy advocacy organizations in shaping climate policy outcomes. Meanwhile, states are spearheading much of the buildout of clean energy. It’s time for new alliances and new strategies. We will partner with these diverse players in service of actionable policies that reduce emissions.

My co-founders and I don’t rest on our laurels. Yes, we’ve written, passed, and implemented climate laws and shaped the environment that allows for continued climate progress. We’ve sought to ensure an equitable energy transition and to protect communities while rebuilding our domestic industrial capacity. We’ve run campaigns and worked for top climate champions in Congress, at the Department of Energy, in think tanks, and in advocacy groups. But this work is unfinished. Clean Tomorrow is ready to advance policies that speed the power sector’s deployment of clean energy, unclog the innovation pipeline, and reinvigorate the domestic industrial sector.

Rain has already washed away those chalk markings on the shed. Clean Tomorrow is foremost for our children, who will keep making their mark in a better future.