Low-Carbon Technology Transfer : From Rhetoric to Reality

ISBN-13: 9781849712699 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 400 str.

Opis

Low carbon technology transfer to developing countries has been both a lynchpin of, and a key stumbling block to a global deal on climate change.This book brings together for the first time in one place the work of some of the world's leading contemporary researchers in this field. It provides apractical, empirically grounded guide for policy makers and practitioners, while at the same making new theoretical advances in combining insightsfrom the literature on technology transfer and the literature on low carbon innovation.

Spis treści

Part 1: New Analytic Approaches  1. Introduction: Low-carbon Technology Transfer: From Rhetoric to Reality  2. International Technology Transfer, Innovation Capabilities and Sustainable Directions of Development  Part 2: Learning From Technology and Country-specific Analysis  3. Case Study: Technology Transfer of Energy Efficient Technologies Among Small and Medium Enterprises in India  4. Low-carbon Innovation in China: The Role of International Technology Transfer  Part 3: Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)  5. The UNEP-EPO-ICTSD Study on Patents and Clean Energy: Key Findings and Policy Implications 6. Technology Transfer, IPRs and Climate Change  Part 4: Assessing Existing International Policy Mechanisms  7. Energy Pathways in Low-carbon Development: The Need to Go Beyond Technology Transfer  8. Low-carbon Technology Transfer Under the Climate Change Convention: Evolution of Multilateral Technology Support  9. Technology Transfer and the CDM  10. Project Based Market Transformation in Developing Countries and International Technology Transfer: The Case of the Global Environment Facility and Solar PV  Part 5: Low-carbon Technology Transfer and Poverty Alleviation  11. Stagnation or Regeneration: Technology Transfer in the UNFCCC  12. Pro-poor Low-carbon Development  13. Climate Change Mitigation Technology and Poverty Reduction Through Small Scale Enterprises  Part 6: Low-carbon Technology Transfer in the Context of Other Global Concerns  14. The Role of Trade and Investment in Accelerating Clean Energy Diffusion: Issues and Perspectives with a Focus on South Asia  15. International Transfers of Climate-friendly Technologies: How the World Trade System Matters  Part 7: Moving Forward: New Directions for Policy and Practice  16. Low-carbon Energy Technology Diffusion: a UK Practitioner Perspective  17. Technology Transfer and Global Markets  18. Reducing the Cost of Technology Transfer Through Community Partnerships  19. Carbon Trading and Sustainable Development: Exploring Options for Reforming the Clean Development Mechanism to Deliver Greater Sustainable Development Benefits

O autorze

David G. Ockwell, Alexandra Mallett