For many years, the theme of sustainability has been a dividing line between political parties. The left in Europe and Democrats in the US were at the helm of the agenda globally, while the conservatives in Europe and the Republicans seemed to oppose it. There was, within this policy framework, a big theme of moral superiority and giving lessons to the rest of the world. Then, the dialogue on the implementation of sustainability policies stopped completely and it became a sterile back-and-forth of lesson-giving and moral superiority. This is now changing.