The Role of Blockchain, Big Data, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence for Transformative Climate Action

Abstract

In light of the climate emergency, mankind is facing the challenge of having to make deliberate choices around how our lives will have to structurally change in order to avert the climate breakdown at an unprecedented urgency and scale. At the same time humanity, through technology, has unprecedented and excellent tools at hand to achieve the just, inclusive, far-reaching systemic change that is needed to avert climate breakdown. While it will be ultimately us, the humans, who will have to take the decisions, technology empowers smarter decision making when decarbonizing our economy and, at the same time, build the desirable and regenerative society of the future. Exponential Technologies will be the major driving force for future socio-economic paradigms and are already shaping our future beyond anything else. It requires a collective retooling of the global cooperation and its institutions to put exponential technologies at the heart of an effective response to future climate risks on a whole system level. This chapter discusses the current misjudgments and categorization errors of exponential technologies and offers disruptive leadership- as well as innovation frameworks aiming to unlock the transformational potential of exponential technologies for far-reaching climate action.