John Goetz is a lawyer and principal at EnerNext Partners. Prior to co-founding NAEM, John co-founded North American Climate Exchange, a platform for spot market transactions which developed one of the first industry accepted emission credit transaction agreements in Canada. In 2017, John co-founded EnerNext Partners to leverage his 30+ years of experience at large law firms and in business to better advise his clients in the energy, cleantech and sustainability sectors. EnerNext Partners is a boutique legal and business advisory partnership that specializes in assisting both early stage and mature companies with their legal, technology commercialization and project development challenges.

John’s work is focused on the interwoven energy and cleantech sectors. He is passionate about his clients’ businesses and works alongside them on their corporate and commercial matters, advising on renewable energy and cleantech project development and the integration of emission reductions and trading into the financial models. John serves on the boards of several cleantech and renewable energy companies and on various committees for charitable and post-secondary institutions. 
John advised on several of Alberta’s carbon capture, transportation and sequestration projects. He co-authored The Development of Emissions Trading in Canada (Alberta Law Review) and also co-authored Enhanced oil recovery through carbon capture and storage : an opportunity for Alberta. He is currently working with a number of leading-edge renewable energy and carbon capture technology clients that have the capacity to generate significant volumes or renewable power and fuel efficiently and economically, while reducing millions of tonnes of GHG emissions annually.