#1 bestselling author and acclaimed venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping action
plan to conquer humanity's greatest challenge: climate change. In 2006 John Doerr was moved
by Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: "Dad your
generation created this problem. You better fix it." Since then Doerr has searched for
solutions to this existential problem-as an investor an advocate and a philanthropist.
Fifteen years later despite breakthroughs in batteries electric vehicles plant-based
proteins and solar and wind power global warming continues to get worse. Its impact is all
around us: droughts floods wildfires the melting of the polar ice caps. Our world is
squarely in a climate crisis and on the brink of a climate disaster. Yet despite our state of
emergency climate change has yet to be tackled with the urgency and ambition it demands. More
than ever we need a clear course of action. Fueled by a powerful tool called Objectives and
Key Results (OKRs) SPEED & SCALE offers an unprecedented global plan to cut greenhouse gas
emissions before it's too late. Used by Google Bono's ONE foundation and thousands of startups
the world over OKRs have scaled ideas into achievements that changed the world. With
clear-eyed realism and an engineer's precision Doerr identifies the measurable OKRs we need to
reduce emissions across the board and to arrive by 2050 at net zero-the point where we are no
longer adding to the heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere. By turns pragmatic and inspiring
SPEED & SCALE intersperses Doerr's wide-ranging analysis with firsthand accounts from Jeff
Bezos Christiana Figueres Al Gore Mary Barra Bill Gates and other intrepid policy leaders
entrepreneurs scientists and activists. This book is a launchpad for leaders of all kind for
anyone anywhere who can move others to act with them. With a definitive action plan the latest
science and a rising climate movement on our side we can still reach net zero before it is too
late. But as Doerr reminds us there is no more time to waste.
________________ 'A critical blueprint for anyone looking to take
concrete steps to reach net-zero emissions. ' Al Gore former U.S. Vice President 'A
practical guide for both public and private sector participation in decarbonizing the global
economy a task as challenging as it is urgent. ' Christiana Figueres former executive
secretary of the UN Climate Change Convention 'A comprehensive plan to tackle one of the most
vexing challenges in human history. ' Jim Collins author of Good to Great and Built to Last
