Speed and Scale

Doerr, John

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To solve the seemingly-insurmountable climate crisis, we have to take collective action, drive societal change and accelerate the net zero economy using a plan of speed and scale. And we have to start now. Here, award-winning author and investor John Doerr convenes the world’s foremost change-makers to show us how we can, if we fully commit to a high-stakes action plan, cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 and reach Net Zero by 2050. He shares practical efforts that we must take, applying Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) – the simple but powerful tools that scale small ideas into global movements – to our climate goals, setting out the standards that we need to reach as leaders.

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Publish Date: 28/10/2021
ISBN: 9780241537770 Category:

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#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.
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‘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

Additional information

Weight 542 g
Dimensions 234 × 153 × 32 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

320

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

363.738746 (edition:23)

Readership

College – higher education / Code: F