Washington DC - May 2008
Climate Technology Innovation Meeting
On May 28 and 29, 2008, a meeting on Climate Technology Innovation took place in Washington, D.C. to discuss the development of a new technology-based strategy and structure that could be incorporated into the international climate framework as well as national, regional, and other forums. Meeting participants from the U.S. and Europe included experts in climate and energy as well as from other fields that face increasingly large scale and complex technology challenges, including public health, agricultural productivity, and consumer product development.
Meeting outcomes from this two-day event included recommendations for using emgering distributed innovation strategies to meet climate technology challenges, detailed in the meeting summary listed below.
This meeting was organized by Clean Energy Group, the Meridian Institute, and Clean Air Task Force with funding by the UK environmental agency DEFRA.