Washington, DC May 2008 - Reports
The following is a list of reports (PDF format) that were prepared and circulated by participants at the IICTP meeting on Climate Technology Innovation:
• The Clean Energy Group/Meridian proposal titled “Climate Technology Innovation: a New Strategy and Structure,” outlines a new approach to the climate innovation process. Also included for consideration is a short CEG paper addressing the topic of “picking technology winners.”
• A paper by Mutsuyoshi Nishimura, Senior Advisor to the Cabinet, Japanese Prime Minister’s Office titled “Innovation Strategies to Achieve GHG Peak and Decline: A Proposal” calls for a new climate mechanism on technology innovation; unfortunately, he was not able to attend the meeting but was kind enough to write some of his perspectives and will participate in future work.
• Richard Benedick, former Ambassador to the US who negotiated the Montreal Protocol, in a paper titled “Confronting Climate Change: The Technology Imperative,” writes that world leaders must finally and frankly assess the uncomfortable lessons of the Kyoto Protocol and that arbitrary short-term emission targets will not promote the revolution in energy technology research, development, and diffusion that is essential to avoiding potentially catastrophic climate change.
• Jill Panetta, co-founder of InnoCentive, has written a paper titled “Distributed R&D,” explaining how distributed innovation processes can be applied to the private corporate sector’s work on product innovation.
• Sasha Mackler, Associate Technical Director, and Tracy Terry, Technical Director, of the National Commission on Energy Policy have enclosed a summary, "Overview of NCEP Projects Focusing on Energy Technology Policy," of their ongoing projects regarding new technology based approaches in the U.S. as well as the need for new institutions to manage these new technology programs.