With COP30 now underway in Belém, Brazil, it can feel as though the world is backsliding when it comes to curbing emissions. Since the last climate summit, major oil companies have scaled back their climate goals, the U.S. has cancelled billions in clean-energy grants, and even Bill Gates has called for a new approach to countering climate change. But those headlines don’t reflect the inexorable progress that is being made across a variety of clean energy sectors, even if the rate of growth in some areas may be slowing. Some of the…