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Building Capacities in Climate Technologies: Understanding Gaps, Needs, Challenges and Enabling Measures to Promote Endogenous Capacities and Technologies

The Technology Executive Committee is proud to announce a new publication focusing on gaps, needs, challenges and enabling measures to develop and enhance countries endogenous capacities and technologies. This report builds on previous report that promotes the common understanding of the concept of endogenous capacities and technologies (see below). It is produced in response to Parties guidance through technology framework, aimed to assist countries in enhancing an enabling environment to promote endogenous and gender responsive technologies for mitigation and adaptation actions. The report highlights that a wide range of strategies can be used to create enabling environments for enhancing countries’ capacities to develop endogenous technologies, including collaboration, financing and building technical skills. The work has also revealed that engagement by multiple stakeholders is crucial to building endogenous capacities. Parties, stakeholders, other constituted bodies and processes under the UNFCCC, including on capacity-building, local communities and indigenous people, gender, finance and national reporting, may wish to take into account the conclusions and recommendations arising from this report. Download the report here. 

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Developing and Enhancing Endogenous Capacities and Technologies: Technology Stakeholders' Perspectives

In its preliminary work (see below), the TEC observed a lack of common understanding on the meaning of endogenous capacities and endogenous technologies in the context of climate change. To address this issue, the TEC conducted surveys of relevant stakeholders and experts to gain insight into their views on the elements and features that could be used to describe, develop and enhance endogenous capacities and technologies. The TEC also sought inputs from other UNFCCC bodies and the operating entities of the Financial Mechanism. This report delivers the findings from that work, which the TEC hopes will serve to improve the understanding of endogenous capacities and technologies. Download the report here  or read online below:

Preliminary study prepared by the secretariat

To facilitate initiation of the work of the TEC in addressing the issue of endogenous capacities and technologies, the secretariat conducted an preliminary study. The aims of the study are two-fold: (i) to better understand the concept of endogenous capacity and technology, and (ii) to examine how these concepts have been applied in various contexts. The study presents an initial approach to the definition of endogenous development taking into account different contexts and establish a number of elements which could represent the endogenous characteristics. It then presents examples of how these elements were applied in different contexts in order to give a more comprehensive and realistic idea of the concept. Download the preliminary study here.