Abstract

Climate change has an impact on the biophysical environment and also human activity. It imposes a range of new challenges for technology development, research, and information and knowledge exchange. Recent advances in ICT have emerged as a critical factor in the development process and can play an equally important role in the climate change challenge. Based on a comprehensive review of the existing literature this paper outlines the impacts of weather change over a region and the range of new and emergent ICTs. These can be applied to climate change issues and investigates their use in developing countries. It also discusses the innovative uses of established technologies and their potential benefits in the process of monitoring the climatic changes and disaster management.