Harnessing deep tech to design new solutions to tackle climate change is an opportunity to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 13: “Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts”, especially at the city level.
The planet is currently facing a global crisis caused by climate change, loss of biodiversity, and a depletion of materials, soil, water and fossil resources. Society must succeed in adapting industrial production to the planet’s biophysical limits, and technology can be part of the solution. According to the UN, the following technologies and areas of innovation can be key to addressing climate change: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, IoT, 5G, renewable energy technology, digital twins, New Space, as well as digitalisation and Big Data in cities and urban regions.
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AI, Robotics, Renewable Energy or Big Data can shape the international green agenda.
The applications of these technologies are wide-ranging and include reducing air pollution and managing e-waste, supporting smart water and energy management, generating clean energy, modelling ‘digital twin’ cities for disaster risk reduction, supporting smart agriculture and food security, and monitoring our planet’s climate and biodiversity.
