Using ICT to Tackle Climate Change

This report, from the Global e-Sustainability Initiative, was published in the run-up to COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico, and lays out the ways that information technologies can help countires achieve their greenhouse gas reduction commitments.

From the intro to the report:

Information & Communications Technologies (ICTs) can be used in a number of ways to meet the requirements of the three main pillars of the Bali Action Plan arising from COP-13 in December 2007:

• Enhanced action on adaptation,
• Cooperative action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and
• Actions on mitigation of climate change.

ICTs can address these and the problems that all countries (particularly developing countries) face with respect to climate change. ICTs can be used to mitigate the impact of other sectors on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to help countries adapt to climate change. these impacts are described in this paper.