Acknowledgements This Technical Report was researched and written by Daniela Torres (Telefónica) and Motsomi Maletjane (UNFCCC) as a contribution to ITU‐T Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities (FG‐SSC) and in alignment with ITU‐T SG5 Question 15/5 mandate to study issues related to ICTs and climate change adaptation. Authors would like to thank specially to Melissa Ilboudo (University of East Anglia, UK), Angelica V Ospina (University of Manchester) and Mythili Menon (University of Geneva) for their valuable technical contribution to this Report. We also thank to Nevine Tewfik (Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt); Tiffany Hodgson (UNFCCC); to Monica Salvia and Filomena Pietrapertosa (National Research Council of Italy – Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (CNR‐IMAA), Italy); Hisashi Sakaguchi and Yasuyuki Koga (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Japan); Hiroko Ioka (Fujitsu) for their helpful review and contribution. For additional information and materials relating to this Report and to the work of ITU‐T Study Group 5 (SG5) on adaptation for climate change, please visit http://www.itu.int/en/ITU‐T/studygroups/2013‐2016/05/Pages/default.aspx. More information about SG5 Question 15/5 on “ICTs and adaptation to the effects of climate change” is available at http://www.itu.int/en/ITU‐T/studygroups/2013‐2016/05/Pages/q15.aspx. If you would like to provide any additional information, please contact Cristina Bueti at tsbsg5@itu.int.