An exploratory research on the impact of IoT and 5G technology in the climate policymaking process

• Autor(a) principal: Diaz Romero, Raúl Emilio Fretes
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/22147
• topic: Alteração climática -- Climate Change; Policymaking cycle; Internet of things; 5G network; Climate monitoring systems; Innovation; Ciclo de políticas publicas; Internet das coisas; Sistemas de comunicações móveis de 5G; Sistema de monitorização climática; Inovação

For decades, climate change and climate-related issues have exponentially increased, causing a global multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder negative impact. In response to this global issue, policymakers and decision-makers have begun to scheme climate policies and responses to avoid further harm. However, the policy process and its currents policy infrastructure, instruments, and tools seem to not be up to the task to tackle a complex and irreversible systemic problem engulfed in uncertainties that expands on a broad temporal and spatial scale. The climate policy cycle is a challenging task requiring enormous data, planning, Evaluation, and monitoring. However, these procedures are often ignored due to their complexity, the lack of climate information, and climate portfolios available to the different stakeholders. In this exploratory research, we delve and explore the challenges and difficulties of the climate policymaking process and how can the research and development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) that enable the collection of real-time climate data, specifically the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5th Generation of Mobile Communication Systems (5G), can become a potential climate policymaking instrument and tool.