Turning Digital Technology Innovation Into Climate Action
UN Entity:
ITU
SDGs:
SDG 06: Clean Water & Sanitation
SDG 07: Affordable & Clean Energy
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
SDG 13: Climate Action
SDG 15: Life on Land
Innovation Area:
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Automation & Robotics
Digital Transformation
Drones & Satellite Imagery
Internet of Things
Data Innovation
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer solutions to monitor, mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. The evidence and case studies presented in this report cover the full range of measures that are being deployed to better understand the Earth’s system, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the climate crisis – from using space sensing observation to track deforestation to developing smart grids to accelerate the energy transition to strengthening early warnings systems against the rising number of extreme weather events.