These resources describe efforts to implement climate technology policies by governments, international cooperative agreements and agenicies, such as the G8, UNFCCC, Gleneagles, Asia Pacific Partnership and other parrallel tracks that focus on technology solutions for climate mitigation. Note that official documents from these international dialogues appear on the Events page.
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Commission of the European Communities. Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and teh Committee of the Regions. Brussels, 22 November 2007.
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Lewis Milford, Clean Energy Group, October 2007. Presentation to the European Climate Platform, Brussels.
ECP Seminar - Strategic Aspects of Technology for the UNFCCC and Climate Change Debate: The post-Bali technology agenda, October 3, 2007.
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Lewis Milford, Clean Energy Group. September 4, 2007. Lewis Milford will present this paper at the G8 Gleneagles Ministerial Meeting in Berlin, Germany in early September 2007.
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Lewis Milford, Clean Energy Group. "A New Geometry of Complementary Climate Technology Solutions: What the Heiligendamm G8 Could Mean for a Post-2012 Climate Framework." July 2007.
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Knut H. Alfsen and Gunnar S. Eskeland, Swedish Ministry of Finance, 2007. This report to the Expert Group for Environmental Studies assesses the Kyoto Protocol and outlines a parallel architecture to address the shortcomings of a cap and trade system to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, Sydney, Australia. January 12, 2006.
Austrailian Government. This report contains the Action Plan from AP6 Task Forces that cover three energy supply sectors: cleaner fossil energy; renewable energy and distributed generation; power generation and transmission. 2006.
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By Clean Energy Group and Heinrich Böll Foundation for the Montreal Strategic Climate Change Workshop on Sub-National Strategies for Clean Energy Investment, Technology Deployment and Innovation. December 2005.
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By Dr. Hermann E. Ott, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. October 5, 2005.
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By Siobhan Peters, Head of G8 and International Climate Change Policy Unit, DEFRA. October 4, 2005.
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National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (2005), "Economic Instruments for Long-term Reductions in Energy-based Carbon Emissions", Ottawa, Canada.
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Pershing, J. and Bradley, R. (2005), “A Climate Solution Concept,” Center for American Progress, Washington, DC.
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UK’s G8 Presidency (2005), obtained from www.g8.gov.uk
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This report was prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in October 2004 by Lawrence H. Goulder of Stanford University. The report explores the role of induced technological change and examines the implications of induced technological change (ITC) for the effective design of climate policy.
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Pacala, S. and Socolow, R. (2004), “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years With Current Technologies,” Science, Volume 305, pp. 968-972.
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May 11, 2004. Chris Mottshead, BP. Mottershead gave this slide presentation at the Climate Group meeting in Toronto. In his presentation, he outlines 16 new business opportunities for BP and other companies, with a strategy to widen those “wedges” to real businesses.
The longer version of this analysis can be found in the July/August 2004 edition of Foreign Affairs by Sir John Browne, Group Chief Executive of BP, in “Beyond Kyoto.” He argues for a similar cap and trade approach, combined with technology innovation and public investment to take the policy discussions into the real world of business opportunity.
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By Clean Energy Group, May 2004.
“This report, written by the Clean Energy Group, looks at the energy industry from a disruptive point of view. If the natural process of disruption is allowed to proceed, it would bring about change that would produce critical social, economic, and environmental benefits…I hope this report helps you frame the key issues in a unique and powerful way."
Clayton Christensen
Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
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Ottawa, February 6, 2004
The Carbon Trust (UK), Clean Energy Group (US) and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities signed an agreement to form The Low Carbon Technology Alliance, an innovative international, multi-party effort to accelerate low carbon technology deployment by closing the “collaborative gap” among practitioners who are using public investment programs.
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This report by e7, a group of international electricity companies from G7 countries, provides a roadmap to improve the diffusion of energy technologies for sustainable development and includes guidelines for strategic actions to address project-level "microbarriers" and recommendations for sustained cooperation to address policy-level "macrobarriers."
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Prepared by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. December 2003. This publication offers a selection of views and experiences of U.S. states and German Länder governments, as well as business leaders and NGO representatives from Germany and the United States, by introducing their renewable energy initiatives, assessing their impact on climate protection, economic growth and employment opportunities, elaborating on the potentials of cooperation, and by exploring participation in the International Conference for Renewable Energy 2004.