The issue of how gender influences the effectiveness of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in tackling climate change is under-researched. This paper offers a systematic review of how gender shapes, and is shaped by, the interaction of ICTs and climate change. It explains why, and how, women tend to be more constrained than men from using ICTs in tackling climate change. Women are systematically disadvantaged in terms of control over and access to assets, institutions and structures, which effects how they adapt to climate change and respond to climate-related disasters. For example, women are excluded from decision-making in policy design and resource allocation thus undermining the effectiveness of ICTs in disaster prevention due to reliance on the masculine culture of information dissemination. To address these limitations, the paper makes a number of proposals to be adopted by development agencies, governments and NGOs in order to make 'ICT climate change' interventions more gender sensitive. These recommendations include: develop gender sensitive funding mechanisms to secure adequate funding to support ICT interventions for gender empowerment; and integrate contextualised gender analysis into ICT policies since men and women perceive and receive information differently, creating diverse approaches to adaptation.