ClimateTech and mobility

Turning climate ambition into demonstrated impact

OXMAN

2022–2024

System-level change through nature-centric design
International Energy Agency

Since 2019

From oil security to shaping global clean energy transitions

Investment in ClimateTech, mobility and energy is accelerating but narrowing to a smaller pool of players. Buyers expect partners that can demonstrate visible progress and scale, with AI offering a unique opportunity to build genuine competitive advantage.

AREA 17 helps you craft leadership by shaping brand, experience, and technology as a single, coherent system.

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ClimateTech and mobility organizations can no longer compete on vision statements. Trust, and increasingly, capital, goes to those that anchor their positioning in measurable deployment: operational sites, emissions reduced, corridors served, timelines met. Generic claims of "leading the transition" are losing credibility across the entire sector. The organizations that earn capital and market position are replacing roadmaps with track records, and making readiness visible before they claim leadership.
Cities, fleet operators and industrial buyers navigate separate platforms for planning, permitting, procurement and operations — each with different data, owners and interfaces. When digital tools don't coordinate these workflows, deployment timelines stretch and buyer confidence erodes. Getting this right means designing unified digital journeys where all stakeholders see the same view of status, costs and impact. Transparency in the interface confirms what the brand claims.
AI only accelerates deployment when the foundations beneath it are stable, connected and reusable. Most ClimateTech and mobility players are still rebuilding from scratch with every new project — isolated pilots, siloed asset data, and bespoke deployments that can't compound learning across the portfolio. Building durable advantage here means establishing a shared data and AI core first, codifying repeatable delivery patterns, and scaling orchestration layers before launching the next wave of digital products.

“AREA 17 combined a highly original exploration with a completely collaborative process, resulting in a site that was creatively spirited and user-perfect. The site gets a wow from everyone who sees it!”

“The impact of AREA 17's work with the IEA fully came to light in 2020. I can’t thank them enough for giving my team the tools we needed to respond to the crisis and collaborate remotely.”

“The new brand and website reflect the IEA’s ambition to make a difference in one of our biggest collective challenges: balancing the planet’s growing energy needs with the threat of climate change.”

“The brand value that we have created has allowed us to be immediately recognized and credible with our stated ambition.”

“From strategic positioning to product execution, AREA 17 delivered an eloquent design that surfaced sensitive, emotional content with both compassion and bold creative expression.”

Naresh Ramchandani
Founder of Do The Green Thing and Partner at Pentagram, Do The Green Thing
Jad Mouawad
Head of Communications & Digital, International Energy Agency
Jad Mouawad
Chef de la communication et du numérique, International Energy Agency
Jad Mouawad
Head of Communications and Digital, International Energy Agency
Nikhil Mitter
Director of Experience Design, Humanly

ClimateTech and mobility index

International Energy Agency

From oil security to shaping global clean energy transitions

Since 2019
OXMAN

System-level change through nature-centric design

2022–2024
LeapFrog Invesments

2023
IATA

2023
PBS SoCal

2020–2021
Do The Green Thing

Tackling climate change through female artists

2019
Humanly

A new kind of patient experience

2018
The Dodo

2016

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ClimateTech and mobility

Turning climate ambition into demonstrated impact

OXMAN

International Energy Agency

Lead with proof of deployment, not transition roadmaps

Turn fragmented transition workflows into coordinated journeys

Build shared data infrastructure before scaling AI

ClimateTech and mobility index

International Energy Agency

OXMAN

LeapFrog Invesments

IATA

PBS SoCal

Do The Green Thing

Humanly

The Dodo