International Initiative on Climate Technology Policy

 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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By Robert Atkinson, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program and Howard Wial, Senior Research Associate, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution. April 2008.

This new report from The Brookings Insitution details how "innovation drives America’s economic growth and ultimately determines its living standards and those of its metropolitan areas. However, the nation faces a growing innovation challenge in today’s global economy. To respond, the federal government should establish a National Innovation Foundation (NIF)—a new, nimble, lean, and collaborative entity devoted to supporting firms and other organizations in their innovative activities. By enhancing America’s world-class entrepreneurial and market environment, NIF would boost the nation’s innovation leadership for the 21st century and raise productivity and incomes. Moreover, by supporting workforce development and performance improvement in firms, NIF would help create better jobs for high school graduates in manufacturing and “low tech” services as well as those with advanced degrees in high technology industries."

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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.

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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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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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Clean Energy Group will participate in the European Commission High Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy and the Environment Sherpa SubGroup; Meeting of the Ad Hoc Group 11: International Action on Climate Change. Daniel Dutcher, CEG Project Director, will attend this meeting to submit CEG’s Written Contribution

See accompanying Clean Energy Group Statement to the Gleneagles Dialogue. Download the document (PDF)

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Link to the Gleneagles G8 Summit web page concerning climate.

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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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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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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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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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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 Chair’s Conclusions from the 2nd Ministerial meeting on the Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Enegy, and Sustainable Development, October 3-4, 2006. Monterrey, Mexico. October 2006.