By Troels Askerud and Dr. Owen Lozman
For decades, the environmental movement has framed the future through sacrifice, regulation, and incremental transition. But a new era is emerging — one defined not only by sustainability, but by transformative technological capability.
At Earthx2026 in Dallas, a significant shift took place.
For the first time at scale, quantum technology entered the center of the environmental and resilience conversation.
Through the launch of the “Quantum For The Goals” event series, Bohrealis and 55 North brought together leaders from government, finance, science, and industry around a powerful idea: that quantum technologies may become one of the most important tools humanity has for building resilience and prosperity in the 21st century.
This was not theoretical. It was a strategic introduction of the second quantum revolution into one of the world’s most influential environmental ecosystems.
A Partnership Designed for the Quantum Age
Many leaders across government, finance, and sustainability still struggle to understand not only what quantum technologies are, but why they matter strategically.
That is where the partnership between Bohrealis and 55 North proved particularly powerful at EarthX.
Through its flagship “Quantum For The Goals” platform, Bohrealis is focused on building the connective infrastructure between innovation, capital, governments, and deployment ecosystems necessary to help shape a globally impactful quantum ecosystem.
55 North brings the expertise and ecosystem intelligence necessary to guide those conversations with credibility and clarity.
As the world’s largest dedicated quantum fund, 55 North sits at the center of the emerging quantum landscape, with direct visibility into the companies, technologies, and scientific developments shaping the future of the industry.
Together, the two Copenhagen-headquartered organizations created a platform at EarthX that merged strategic convening power with world-class quantum thought leadership, while further positioning Copenhagen — birthplace of the first quantum revolution through the legacy of Niels Bohr — as an emerging center of the second.
A New Conversation at EarthX
The “Quantum For The Goals” series was featured prominently during the 9th Annual Island Resilience Summit, chaired by Prime Minister Lord Fatafehi Fakafānua from the Kingdom of Tonga, where Dr. Owen Lozman delivered a featured spotlight presentation followed by a deep-dive interview led by Troels Askerud.
The discussions explored how quantum technologies could transform fields ranging from energy systems and logistics optimization to climate modeling, pharmaceutical development, and national resilience planning.
At the 2026 Nature Summit, Dr. Lozman and Dr. Kai Hudek joined a fireside conversation moderated by Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, Special Representative for Climate Change for the Government of Panama, examining how emerging technologies and long-horizon capital can accelerate solutions to global environmental and societal challenges.
But perhaps the most important conversations happened behind closed doors.
Quantum and the Climate Crisis
Quantum technologies are often misunderstood as distant scientific experiments disconnected from everyday life. In reality, many of their most promising applications are directly tied to climate resilience and environmental sustainability.
Quantum computing has the potential to dramatically accelerate the discovery of next-generation battery materials capable of storing renewable energy more efficiently and at lower cost. It could help optimize power grids in real time, reducing energy waste while improving the integration of solar and wind power into national energy systems.
Quantum-enhanced logistics systems may significantly reduce fuel consumption across shipping, aviation, and transportation networks by optimizing routes and supply chains at levels impossible for classical computing systems.
Quantum sensing technologies could revolutionize environmental monitoring by enabling governments to detect methane leaks, track ocean changes, monitor deforestation, and improve early-warning systems for extreme weather events with unprecedented precision.
In agriculture, quantum-driven modeling could improve fertilizer efficiency, crop resilience, and water management — critical advancements as food systems face increasing pressure from climate instability.
These are not marginal improvements. They are foundational capabilities that could help societies respond to increasingly complex global pressures, from climate instability and supply chain disruption to energy security and geopolitical fragmentation.
For small island developing states and countries on the frontlines of climate change, the implications could be particularly profound.
The environmental movement cannot afford to ignore this technological frontier.
From Environmental Dialogue to Capital Architecture
During EarthX week, Bohrealis organized an invitation-only “Quantum For The Goals” briefing featuring the thought leadership of 55 North for senior government officials and family office leaders attending the EarthX Family Office Summit.
The gathering brought together Prime Minister Fakafānua alongside UN Ambassadors from Tonga, Nauru, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu, as well as influential investors and private sector leaders seeking to understand how quantum technologies may reshape the global economy over the coming decades.
For many participants, it represented their first substantive exposure to the quantum ecosystem.
And that matters.
Because the second quantum revolution will not be shaped by scientists alone. It will be shaped by whether governments, sovereign capital, institutional investors, and industry leaders develop the relationships necessary to deploy these technologies responsibly and effectively.
That is the gap Bohrealis was created to help address — while 55 North provides the investment insight and technical fluency helping those conversations operate at the highest level.
From Earth Day to the United Nations
On Earth Day, Bohrealis co-hosted a closing dinner for 80 leaders at the private residence of Trammell S. Crow, where the next chapter of “Quantum For The Goals” was announced — not simply as another conference, but as a global call-to-action.
On Monday, September 21st, during the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Bohrealis and SDG News will host the Quantum For The Goals Summit at the United Nations Headquarters.
The summit will feature 55 North alongside many of the leading voices shaping the second quantum revolution. It will convene governments, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, institutional investors, industry executives, innovators, and scientists from across the global quantum ecosystem.
Its mission is clear: mobilize the partnerships, capital, and international coordination necessary to accelerate transformative technologies capable of driving resilience and prosperity worldwide — while helping ensure the priorities of the quantum age remain impact-driven and connected to the needs of the world’s most vulnerable communities and ecosystems.
Because the defining question of the next decade will not simply be who invents the future.
It will be who helps shape it — and who ensures its benefits are impact-driven and deployed at global scale.
55 North is the world’s largest dedicated quantum technology venture capital fund, backing companies that reshape industry, accelerate discovery, and drive global progress. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, the fund invests stage-agnostically from Seed to Series B across the full quantum stack—quantum computing, sensing, and communications—targeting enabling technologies, full-stack hardware solutions, and breakthrough software applications. Led by a team combining deep technical expertise with proven venture capital track records, 55 North partners with world-class scientists, entrepreneurs, and institutional investors to advance breakthrough quantum solutions. 55 North invests globally while building Europe’s quantum innovation ecosystem. 55 North delivers impatient, long-term capital to companies solving real-world problems, positioning quantum technologies for commercial deployment and economic impact.
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