ICTs Tackling
Climate Changes
Dr. Amr Badawi
Executive President
NTRA
Outline
• Introduction
• ICT Potential
• ICT Role
• Policy Advocacy
• Egyptian ICT Society Role
• Conclusion
Introduction
• Climate change, and variability, has profound
impacts on various sectors:
Agriculture, Fishery, Water management,
Health, Water-related disasters (floods,
droughts, landslides), Coastal environment, etc.
• Among those, Agriculture is the most vulnerable
sector. Food supply will be affected under the
increasing demand due to population growth
which threats food security.
ICT Potential
• Climate adaptation refers to measures to
address changes already occurring as a result of
global warming, manage information is an
important factor determining the chance for a
community to adapt to climate change.
• ICT has great potential and use in collecting,
analyzing, planning and disseminating
information on climate change and this is one of
the reasons why the Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs) can play an
important role in tackling climate change.
ICT Role
The Information and Communications Technology
(ICT) industry has a critical role to play in tackling
climate change.
1. Making business more efficient and less polluting/
Reducing energy required for productivity in various
Sectors
2. Monitoring , Analyzing and Modeling of climate
changes
3. Promoting awareness, education, knowledge
sharing on climate change
4. Disasters Management and Early Warning Systems
Egypt Faces the Challenge
• Egypt's concern about global climate change and its
consequences on sustainable development comes as
crucial.
• Egypt is facing these challenges responsibly and
taking proactive measures to protect its future
generations from serious threats that will increase in
the absence of actions taken today. A signatory to the
1995 United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC), Egypt has prepared a
National Action Plan on Climate Change to
coordinate its efforts to face this serious and important
challenge, to maintain its sustainable economic
development, and to provide a safe environment for
its future generations.
Policy Advocacy
Using ICTs for monitoring and adapting to
climate change and establishing links with
environment, agricultural and other
livelihood related sectors requires a major
shift in ICT policy thinking, including
coordinated investment strategies and
regional level co-operations.
Conclusion
• Making a major difference in understanding and acting on
climate change.
• Reducing pollution either directly or indirectly.
• Reducing the severity of Climate Change impacts and
adaptive needs. Governments need to develop robust
mitigation policies which include influencing consumer
behaviors towards reducing emissions in addition to a major
shift in ICT policy thinking.
• The best way forward is to ensure that both the
environmental & business benefits are together in our mind.
Thank You