Technology Transfer Clearing House

Technology Transfer Clearing House

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Technology in Copenhagen

Negotiations in Copenhagen under the AWG-LCA on technology development and transfer made significant progress, however, several outstanding issues remaining to be resolved. A Technology Mechanism is defined as contained in FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/L.7/Add.3 which is comprised of a Technology Executive Committee and a Technology Centre and Network and a set of actions to enhance research, development, demonstration, deployment, diffusion and transfer of technologies for mitigation and adaptation. Outstanding issues include the legal nature of the elements of the text, measures to address intellectual property rights, the relationship between the Technology Mechanism and the new financial arrangements under the Convention, and the reporting relationships between the various existing and new institutions under the Convention.

The SBI and the SBSTA at their thirty first session endorsed the programme of work of the EGTT for 2010-2011 and welcomed the continued dialogue of the EGTT with the business community. They further welcomed the final report of the EGTT on performance indicators. The SBI invited the GEF to provide a report on the progress made on the implementation of Poznan strategic programme on technology transfer at its thirty-second session, including on the long-term aspects of this programme.

Events

UNFCCC African regional workshop on preparing technology transfer projects for financing
Gaborone, Botswana
2-4 September 2009

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Resources

World Intellectual Property Organization PATENTSCOPE®

PATENTSCOPE® is WIPO's portal for patents and patent-related resources. It features a full-text search engine which indexes more than 1.5 million international patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) system. Users can use the Patentscope(r) search service to monitor patenting activity by company, technology, country and many other criteria. Graphical analysis tools and RSS feeds are provided to add value to the raw search results. Link>>

Publications

	Handbook on conducting technology needs assessment for cliamte change June 2009 This advance document of the updated Technology Needs Assessment Handbook (TNA Handbook) was jointly prepared by the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, under the auspices of the Expert Group on Technology Transfer (EGTT) and in cooperation with the Climate Technology Initiative. This updated Handbook was developed as a response to the request from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP) Decisions as reflected in 3/CP.13 and 2/CP.14. The advance version of the handbook is available for download here .
	Innovative options for financing the development and transfer of technologies May 2007 This brochure is based on the latter technical paper and written in a user friendly language aiming at making this information available to a wider audience. The brochure is available for download here or from the publications section .
	UNFCCC guidebook on preparing technology transfer projects for financing 30 November 2006 The UNFCCC launched the 'UNFCCC guidebook on preparing technology transfer projects for financing'. The guidebook aims to assist project developers in developing countries and other stakeholders in preparing project proposals that will meet the standards of international finance providers. The guidebook is available for download here or from the publications section .