Quantum technologies for climate change: Preliminary assessment

Understand

Climate change presents an existential threat to human societies and the Earth's ecosystems more generally.

• Mitigation strategies naturally require solving a wide range of challenging problems in science, engineering, and economics.
• In this context, rapidly developing quantum technologies in computing, sensing, and communication could become useful tools to diagnose and help mitigate the effects of climate change.
• However, the intersection between climate and quantum sciences remains largely unexplored.