As the global climate emergency steadily intensifies, urgent calls have been made for a transition to a more sustainable organization of society. As a result, an ambitious global environmental agenda, that puts sustainability and green transition in the forefront, is actively pursued across different levels of governance. Contemporary systems of governance can be characterized as thoroughly neoliberal, relying on organizational forms that build on market and management logics. A particular form of organization that has grown strong in these systems of governance is the project format. Project systems instituted by actors like the EU or domestic state agencies today proliferate and entail a particular bureaucratic apparatus of applications, reporting and evaluation. As the project format has evolved into a generic and universal form that can be used in a multitude of contexts, it has certainly not left the field of sustainability and green transition untouched. Rather, transition projects abound. This development can be understood in the light of an increasing depoliticization of environmental politics that comes to expression in the dominance of “a series of technologies of governing that fuse around consensus, agreement, accountancy metrics and technocratic environmental management” (Swyngedouw, 2009: 601). In this paper, I examine how the project format – understood as an expression of a depoliticizing logic in environmental politics – shapes and possibly transforms transition efforts. Empirically, I focus on transition projects implemented in the Northern regions of Sweden, in which large investments in green industries have given impetus to a plethora of transition projects in a wide variety of sectors. In this paper, I develop a theoretical framework for analyzing how the governing implicit in the project format shapes green transition efforts and how it limits the scope for politicizing the power relations underpinning the climate emergency.