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 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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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, CEG President and Executive Director, Clean Energy States Alliance, presented "US Public-Private Partnerships for Investing in Renewable Energy - US State Renewable Energy Funds" at the International Grid-Connected Renewable Energy Policy Forum held in Mexico City from February 1-3 2006. The forum is on behalf of the Energy Ministry of Mexico, the Global Environment Facility, The World Bank, and the Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP), and organized in association with the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
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Michael Steiner, Department of Economics, University of Graz. August 2004. 44th European Congress of the European Regional Science Association.