International Initiative on Climate Technology Policy

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Dr. Hermann E. Ott, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. A discussion paper for the 2007 Tällberg Forum. August 2007.

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
http://www.apec.org/

Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy
http://www.energy-base.org/

California Energy Commission
http://www.energy.ca.gov/

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research - 4CMR
http://www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/research/eeprg/4cmr/index.htm

Carbon Trust
http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/default.ct

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
http://www.ceps.eu/index3.php

CICERO - Center for International Climate and Environmental Research
http://www.cicero.uio.no/home/index_e.aspx

Clean Air Task Force
http://www.catf.us/

Clean Energy Group
http://www.cleanegroup.org/

Clean Energy States Alliance
http://www.cleanenergystates.org/

Climate Group
http://www.theclimategroup.org

DEFRA - Climate Change and Energy
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/index.htm

E+Co
http://www.eandco.net/

Ecologic - Institute for International and European Environmental Policy
http://www.ecologic.de/

Environment Canada
http://www.ec.gc.ca/

European Commission - Innovation and Technological Development in Energy
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/res/index_en.htm

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Germany) - Climate and Energy
http://www.bmu.de/english/climate_and_energy/aktuell/35017.php

Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Center for Sustainable Community Development
http://sustainablecommunities.fcm.ca/home/

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
http://www.feem.it/Feem/default.htm

French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME)
http://www2.ademe.fr/servlet/getDoc?id=38480&m=3&cid=96

Future International Action on Climate Change Network
http://www.post-2012.com/

German Energy Agency (Deutsche Energie-Agentur)
http://www.dena.de/en/

Heinrich Böll Foundation
http://www.boell.org

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
http://www.ipcc.ch/

International Energy Agency
http://www.iea.org/

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) - Climate and Energy
http://www.iisd.org/climate/

Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA)
http://www.enea.it/com/ingl/default.htm

Maastricht Economic and Social Research Training Center on Innovation and Technology (UNU)
http://www.merit.unu.edu/

Meridian Institute
http://www.merid.org/

Ministry of the Environment and Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia
http://www.regional-renewables.org/cms/front_content.php?idcat=23

REN21
http://www.ren21.net/default.asp

Resources for the Future
http://www.rff.org/

SEFI Public Finance Alliance
http://www.energy-base.org/english/projects/sef-alliance.html

Sustainable Development Technology Canada
http://www.sdtc.ca/en/index.htm

Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative
http://sefi.unep.org

Swedish Energy Agency
http://www.energimyndigheten.se/english

Swiss Federal Office of Energy
http://www.bfe.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en

UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
http://unfccc.int/2860.php

UN Gateway to Work on Climate Change
http://www.un.org/climatechange/

Wingaersheek Research Group
http://www.wingrg.com/Published_Articles.html

Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
http://www.wupperinst.org/en/home/

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Link the the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change website.

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Ken Berlin, Robert M. Sussman. Link to web site for "The Path to Cleaner Coal: Performance Standard More Effective Than Bonus Allowances," Center for American Progress Action Fund. August 2007.

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Austrailian Buisness and Climate Group Report, August 2007.

Link to the ABCG web site to download the report, "Stepping Up: Accelerating the Deployment of Low Emission Technology in Austrailia."

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Open Europe. August 2007.

Link to Open Europe’s report on the short-comings of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the EU’s main policy tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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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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Ken Berlin, Robert M. Sussman. Center for American Progress. "Global Warming and the Future of Coal: Carbon Capture and Storage. May 31, 2007. Link to the document web page on Center for American Progress web site.

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Vajjhala, Shalini, Jenny Gode and Asbjørn Torvanger, 2007. An International Regulatory Framework for Risk Governance of Carbon Capture and Storage. CICERO, 11pp. May 2007.

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Ken Berlin and Robert M. Sussman, Center for American Progress. May 2007.

Sussman and Berlin make a very good case for complementary technology in general, and their report specifically relates to the need for performance standards to implement CCS technololgy. The authors maintain that neither cap and trade nor coal taxes will suffice because the price of carbon emissions or coal will not go high enough to spur the new technology. A performance standard will need to be accompanied by incentives, say the authors, to keep energy prices affordable.

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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.

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Lewis Milford, Clean Enegy Group. This document describes the work plan focus for members of the International Intiative on Climate Technology Policy.

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Richard G. Newll, Resources for the Future. February 2007. This paper discusses available technology policies, options to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of those policies, and new approaches to technology policy.

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Heleen de Coninck, Carolyn Fischer, Richard G. Newell and Takahiro Ueno; Resources for the Future. January 2007. This paper explores how technology agreements can play an important role in climate mitigation strategies.

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Commission of the European Communities. January 2007. "Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions."

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Takahiro Ueno, Resources for the Future. November 2006; revised March 2007. This report explores "Design and Process Principles of International Technology Cooperation for Climate Change Mitigation."

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Adiel N. Mbabu and Cosmas Ochieng, ISNAR Divsion Discussion Paper 8, October 2006.

This paper, prepared by the International Service for National Agriculture Research Divsion, discusses how impact-oriented agricultural research for development systems in Africa can be better organized and managed. Specifically, the paper puts forth the argument that achieving the development targets set by African leaders and the international community, for example, through the Millennium Development Goals, will be extremely difficult without a satisfactory re-orientation of the organization and management of African research for development systems. Such a re-orientation involves carefully linking the agricultural research agenda with national development priorities; improving coordination, interaction, interlinkages, partnerships, and networks among system agents—that is, agricultural research institutes, extension systems, higher education institutions, farmer organizations, civil society, and the private sector—and finding innovative financing and resourcing mechanisms to support the numerous components of the system.

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Link to the webpage of the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change on the HM Treasury web site.  

Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economic Service and Adviser to the Government on the economics of climate change and development, delivers the most comprehensive review ever carried out on the economics of climate change. October 2006.

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Lewis Milford & Mary Jean Burer, Clean Energy Group. September 2006.

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Ambassador Richard E. Benedick