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Climate Change presents a fundamental existential threat to the world. Approximately 3.6 billion people live in areas highly susceptible to climate change, most representing systematically marginalized communities. The 2024 conference contextualises digital governance in terms of the World We Want. Digital technologies and data-driven interventions can support the structural changes needed to avert and, at the very least, mitigate human-induced catastrophes and adverse effects. Governments, the private sector, civil society, and scholars have been developing and implementing various tech-based and data-driven initiatives to respond to challenges arising from converging crises, including health, social, economic, and climate crises. However, concerted efforts to dispute climate change data are contributing to the erosion of trust in mitigation strategies such as energy transition. This track is dedicated to presenting and discussing the relationship between technology and climate crises, including the use of digital technology as a tool to understand and manage crises and disasters, and the ways in which technology exacerbates or contributes to climate change. This cross-cutting topic aims to promote the achievement of sustainable development goals, mainly SDG 13. The Track invite papers that will discuss the role of emerging technologies, cases of application, strengthening trust in climate data, international digital cooperation, and interventions to understanding and managing crises and disasters to create resilient and sustainable responses, centring people and the environment.