Venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping-and actionable-plan to conquer humanity's
greatest challenge: climate change. In 2006 acclaimed investor John Doerr and his partners at
Kleiner Perkins launched their first clean technology fund. They've backed more climate
entrepreneurs than anyone else and have invested in a broad range of solutions absorbing
hard-earned lessons along the way. Fifteen years later despite breakthroughs in batteries
electric vehicles 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 consistency and urgency it requires.
More than ever we need a clear course of action. What if the goal-setting techniques that
powered the rise of today's most innovative organizations were brought to bear on humanity's
greatest challenge? Fueled by a powerful tool called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) SPEED &
SCALE offers an unprecedented global plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and preserving a
habitable planet. Used by Google Bono's ONE foundation and startups the world over OKRs have
scaled ideas into achievements that changed the world. With clear-eyed realism and
science-backed precision Doerr identifies the OKRs we need to reduce emissions across every
sector of the economy 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. A launchpad for those who want to act now this book is geared to
ambitious leaders of every kind. With a definitive plan 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.
