Government plays crucial roles in addressing and acting on the green transition and grand societal challenges more broadly. One of these roles is to make private businesses responsible and accountable for sustainable development through public policy. But what about government’s ability to make itself and the public sector responsible and accountable for green actions and outcomes? Based on the case of Denmark, this blog post argues that the self-responsibililization of government and the public sector calls for closer scrutiny as it tends to be characterized by decoupling and lack of clearly defined ownership and accountability regarding the green transition.