On December 12–13, 2024, the IEEE convened the IEEE-ITU Symposium on Achieving Climate Resilience (ISACR), hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland. The event brought together a global network of leaders—from UN agencies to industry innovators, academics, and policymakers—to begin shaping a technology-driven roadmap to confront climate change.

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Over two days, participants explored how digital transformation, sustainable development, and emerging technologies can accelerate climate resilience. A central outcome of the Symposium was the commitment to develop a collaborative Technology Roadmap aimed at enhancing environmental efficiency, with an initial focus on the electric power sector.

To build on this work, a follow-on workshop is taking place on 21–22 May 2025, also in Geneva, by invitation only. This working session gathers stakeholder input on key roadmap pillars: technology readiness and cost, infrastructure deployment and circularity, skilled workforce development, community engagement, and supply chain resilience.

The draft roadmap will be unveiled at the second IEEE-ITU Symposium on Achieving Climate Resilience, set for December 16–17, 2025. While the first phase focuses on the power sector, the roadmap is intended as a flexible framework that can be adapted to other critical sectors such as transportation, the built environment, and agriculture. Designed for use by policymakers, industry, UN agencies, and academia, it will serve as a practical guide for deploying clean technologies at scale and building resilience in the face of climate disruption.