Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

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As featured on CNNs Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4s Start the Week with Andrew Marr
One of the Financial Times best books of 2021
In this extraordinary journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy meets the people on the front lines of the climate crisis, showing how the struggle to respond is already reshaping the modern world shattering communities, shaking up global business, and propelling a groundbreaking wave of cutting-edge innovation.

HOW is Chinas green energy push driving a hazardous mining rush in Congo

WHY is a maverick scientist building a home for engineered mammoths in northeast Siberia

CAN an Israeli fake meat startup make a fortune while helping to save the Amazon

WILL Greenlands melting sea ice put its people at the centre of a global power struggle

WHO are the entrepreneurs chasing breakthroughs in fusion power, electric cars, and technology to suck carbon from the atmosphere

As the impacts of climate change cascade across the planet and the global economy, who is battling to survive the worst impacts and who is chasing the most lucrative rewards

Telling unforgettable human stories from six continents, this is an account of disaster, of promise, of frantic adaptation and relentless innovation, of hope, of survival, and of the forces that will define our future.

More praise

Vivid and informed ADAM NICOLSON

I took a great sense of hope RICHARD POWERS

Reads like a thriller MARK LYNAS

An inspiring piece of work that deserves a broad audience MICHAEL E. MANN

Utterly unlike any book yet written in this field ANAND MAHINDRA

Gripping A must-read for every concerned global citizen NANDAN NILEKANI

Reviews

Contains a lot of really, really interesting hard science and market-based solutions, [and] some extraordinary examples of technology Very useful indeed
Andrew Marr

Its a brilliant book! An optimistic, unpatronising account of what humankind CAN do to address climate change
Rob Rinder, Talk Radio

He takes it down from this 30,000-foot view to people on the ground I took a great sense of hope
Richard Powers, author of The Overstory

An inspiring piece of work that deserves a broad audience Read this book both to understand the urgency of climate action, and to recognise, too, the agency we still have
Michael E. Mann, author of The New Climate War

[Puts] a human face on the most important story of our times. This book is eloquent and humane a vital work of storytelling
Henry Mance, author of How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World

Simon Mundys vivid and informed despatches from the front line of climate change reveal not only the catastrophes imposed by global warming (which are hidden from most of us) but the best and brightest of responses to them Dont wait.Read it now before the race is lost
Adam Nicolson, author of The Sea is Not Made of Water

Mundys book reads like a thriller
Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees and Our Final Warning

Utterly unlike any book yet written in this field. Packed with vivid human stories, from the most desperately challenged communities to the highest levels of global business and politics, its an essential guide to how the climate crisis is transforming the modern world
Anand Mahindra

A gripping story of individuals, communities and societies who are grappling with the myriad challenges of climate change. A must read for every concerned global citizen
Nandan Nilekani

A pacy, riveting global tour of our fracturing planet; completely fascinating
Ben Rawlence

Author Bio

Simon Mundy covers environmental and sustainability issues for the Financial Times. He began his reporting career in Johannesburg, where he covered Southern Africa for the FT before a period writing on the London financial sector. He then spent seven years in Asia, heading the FT bureaux in Seoul and Mumbai - before two years travelling across six continents to research Race for Tomorrow, his first book. He was born in the UK.