By Lewis Milford and Jessica Morey, Clean Energy Group. December 2009.
This brief 8-page document addresses the “why” of international technology collaboration — the basic reasons why global technology policies – for product development — beyond cap and trade are needed for stabilization. The paper reviews the major reasons why the world needs coordinated and collaborative climate technology innovation and product development – in addition to emissions cap and trading. To simplify core principles, this paper explains why technology innovation is needed and why countries should pursue complementary technology innovation policies on a coordinated, global basis. The paper supports the arguments with experts’ quotations and then provides a comprehensive list of citations and key reports for further reading on each point in the Appendix.
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By Lewis Milford and Jessica Morey, Clean Energy Group. December 2009.
This one-page document explains the reasons to consider a new international climate innovation facility to meet the challenges of climate recovery.
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By Clean Energy Group, Meridian Institute and Center for European Policy Studies, December 2009
This paper recommends “how” an international technology collaboration could be structured. It proposes using “virtual” and low cost “distributed innovation” and Internet-based tools to accelerated technology cooperation and change – in the same way most major corporations today create collaborative products with partners outside their companies. It argues that climate policy makers should use these corporate strategies in climate, and accelerate global product development in low carbon technologies at a scale and in the time frames needed for stabilization – and to do so using new structures outside the existing institutions. This is a joint paper with the Meridian Institute and the Center for European Policy Studies.
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Christian Egenhofer, Lew Milford, Noriko Jujiwara, Thomas L. Brewer and Monica Alessi. European Climate Platform (ECP) Report No. 4, December 2007.
This report analyzes the issue of technology development, demonstration and diffusion with a view to indentifying the key elements of a complementary global technology track in the post-2012 framework.
This report is based on discussions at the ECP seminar on Strategic Aspects of Technology for the UNFCCC and Climate Change Debate: The Post-Bali Technology Agenda, 3 October 2007, Brussels.
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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.
- Filed under Climate Technology Policies, Climate Technology Process Implementation, Other, New Developments, Resources | November 2007
- Tags: cooperative agreements, distributed innovation, international strategies, public private partnerships, sub national strategies, sustainable energy technologies, technology innovation
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Lewis Milford, Clean Energy Group, November 2007. Discussion paper to be presented at the Road to Copenhagen 2009 Conference on Leadership, Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Brussels, Belgium.
This paper proposes a new global architecture and strategy for climate technology innovaiton for the post-2012 framework.
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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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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.