Page 12 - Frontier technologies to protect the environment and tackle climate change - Executive Summary

Frontier technologies to protect the environment and tackle climate change

assessment of emerging technology trends and scalable deployment of existing frontier
solutions should play a part in any city’s resilience strategy over the foreseeable term.
• Wisely used, frontier technologies offer innovative solutions: They may be considered
frontier or emerging, but these technologies comprise innovative solutions to meet the
needs of the world’s population while addressing those of the planet. Cities and urban
regions form the perfect backdrops to test frontier technologies to mitigate the effects
of climate change. Continuing innovation must, therefore, be cultivated, nurtured and
incentivized by local and national governments alike, in partnership with industry and
academia. Many emerging technologies are inter-related, especially to IoT, AI, 5G and Big
Data. While the concepts of many of today’s emerging technologies have been around for
some time, it is now becoming feasible to implement IoT and scalable information systems
on larger scales. Ensuring the affordable and wide-scale deployment of these ‘enabler’
and other connective technologies will assure the further advancement and adoption of
other frontier technologies.

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