We need to move faster
Climate hazards are accelerating, and deploying solutions that are already available is vastly more affordable than the escalating cost of delay.
Praise for the book
“Move Fast shows how better technology, lower costs, and smarter capital are accelerating progress in ways the headlines often miss.”
“Delivers a data-packed and timely must read for entrepreneurs, investors, and practitioners driving the transition of energy and industry.”
“A profoundly important book, Move Fast and Fix the Planet manages to be both harrowing and hopeful. Author Jonathan Weitz spells out, in excruciatingly well researched detail, what we are up against, and why a clean energy transformation remains feasible. Whether you’re an expert, or just wading into the conversation for the first time, this book will be an invaluable resource.”
“A clear-eyed, practical, and energizing playbook for the next era of climate innovation. Weitz understands that the clean economy is already reshaping markets, supply chains, policy, and competitiveness. For business leaders, investors, policymakers, and entrepreneurs who want to move from ambition to implementation, this is an essential guide.”
“Founders building climate solutions know the technology is ready. What we need are partners willing to move at our speed. Move Fast and Fix the Planet gives business leaders the roadmap to become those partners.”
Clean technologies are winning...
... because they increase affordability, energy security, and resilience. As a result, investors are allocating capital to them and adoption is growing worldwide.
But not fast enough. Worsening climate hazards expose the risk of delay.
Corporate leaders who recognize the value creation opportunity and move quickly to adapt will find profitable growth and lower risk. Those who wait will face disruption.
Move Fast and Fix the Planet is the playbook for competing in the low-carbon economy. Its practical approach is grounded in what’s working today, drawing on original research covering more than 400 companies and 5,000 climate tech startups.
Who this book is for
Executives and board members
Allocate capital to growth markets, apply AI to the biggest challenges, and improve cost efficiency.
Sustainability leaders
Implement transition plans faster, connect decarbonization to strategy, and deliver business outcomes.
Heads of corporate innovation, venturing, and M&A
Find startup partnerships, untapped revenue streams, and new business models.
Entrepreneurs
Close funding gaps, secure corporate customers, and reach commercial scale.
Investors
Find growth value pools and ways to reduce portfolio risk.
Policymakers
Improve affordability and boost competitiveness through programs that catalyze private capital.
Philanthropy and NGO leaders
Place grants for systemic impact and build coalitions that mobilize corporate action.
Young professionals
Drive real change and find career opportunities in clean tech.
Inside the book
Urgency
The clean economy race is on
Falling costs, technology, industrial policy, and rising global demand are turning the clean economy into a race for competitiveness and growth.
Clean tech creates value and disrupts markets
Clean technologies create value through new revenue, lower costs, and greater resilience; they are also disrupting business models in every industry.
Strategy
Wire sustainability into strategy
Companies create lasting advantage when they connect sustainability to competitive strategy, innovation, and capital allocation.
Plan for the future you can’t predict
Strategic foresight helps leaders prepare for the climate-related opportunities and risks ahead.
Transformation
Align the operating model
A whole-enterprise approach to climate transition that aligns capital, governance, talent, supply chains, product innovation, operations, and AI.
Shift the portfolio for sustainable growth
Climate-aligned portfolio strategy strengthens the core business and opens new growth markets.
Cut costs and emissions
The SHAPE framework helps organizations uncover efficiency opportunities that reduce operating costs and environmental impact.
Growth
Partner with clean tech startups
How companies use startup partnerships, open innovation, corporate venturing, offtake agreements, and M&A to scale clean technologies.
Grow new climate-aligned revenue
A repeatable venture-building method to turn sustainability challenges into new businesses, shorten time to market, and build an innovation culture.
Adapt the business model
Business model innovation supports the climate transition and clears barriers to adoption.
Collaboration
Build coalitions that move markets
Alliances overcome systemic challenges by signaling demand, sharing knowledge, and mobilizing public and private capital.
Advocate for bold climate policy
Proactive, science-aligned policy advocacy accelerates deployment, strengthens competitiveness, and expands clean technology markets.
Take Action
The technology and economics are ready, and the choice is ours: will we invest in the transition and move fast enough to fix the planet?
About the author
Jonathan Weitz is the founder of climate tech company Marceta PBC, and co-founder of Bounded AI. Previously, he was a managing director at Accenture. He has worked with global corporations on sustainability innovation, AI strategy, M&A, partnership development, and venture building. He mentors climate tech founders on commercialization and business model development. Jonathan lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two children.
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