UNFCCC WORKSHOP on Enabling Environments for Technology Transfer

Het Pand Conference Centre, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 9–10 April 2003

Mandate

In response to the recommendations of the EGTT, the SBSTA at its seventeenth session requested the secretariat, resource permitting, to organize a workshop on enabling environments for technology transfer in April 2003, and to report on the findings of the workshop to the SBSTA at its eighteenth session. At the same session, it also welcomed the offer of the Government of Belgium to host this workshop (FCCC/SBSTA/2002/13).

Introduction

The workshop will provide an opportunity for experts from governments, inter-governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations and representatives from the private sector, to exchange views and experiences on a range of activities relating to the creating or promotion of enabling environments for the development and transfer of technologies in different countries. This will include the development of incentives, standards, legal instruments and institutional arrangements. Participants will also discuss barriers to technology transfer and ways and means to overcome those barriers in specific sectors with regard to mitigation and adaptation technologies.

Expected outcomes

• Better understanding among participants on issues relating to the enabling environments for technology transfer;
• Comments and inputs for the work of the EGTT and the secretariat on the technical paper on enabling environments for technology transfer;
• Elements for possible actions or next steps for the promotion of enabling environments for technology transfer to be further considered by the EGTT and the SBSTA.

Documents

• Agenda
  
• Workshop report
• List of participants
• Information for participants
• Room reservation form

Presentations

• Development and transfer of technologies in the context of the climate change convention
  Wanna Tanunchaiwatana, UNFCCC secretariat
  
  
• Enabling environments for technology transfer in the context of climate change
  Ogunlade Davidson, Co-Chair of Working Group III, IPCC
  
  
• Enabling environments for technology transfer
  Daniele Violetti, UNFCCC secretariat
  
  
• Barriers and opportunities to technology transfer in specific sectors with regard to mitigation and adaptation technologies
  Holger Liptow, EGTT member

• Enabling environments for technology transfer: incentives, standards, legal instruments and institutional arrangements
  Junfeng Li, China

• Synergy and consistency between activities of the UNFCCC and other relevant organizations in supporting enabling environments for technology transfer
  Elmer Holt, CTI

• Experiences and lessons learned from programmes and projects regarding technology transfer
  Andrea Marroni, Ministry for the Environment and Territory, Italy

• Enabling environments for technology transfer: ‘some food for thought’
  Bernard Mazijn, Centre for Sustainable Development, Ghent University

• Barriers and opportunities to technology transfer: a case of barriers to solar PV technology transfer in mwanza, Tanzania
  K.F. Manyika, Tanzania

• Enabling environments for clean energy technology transfer
  Michael Gerbis, The Delphi Group

• Enabling environments for technology transfer: findings of the draft technical paper
  Malini Ranganathan, UNFCCC consultant, TERI, India

• Summary from Africa and ASEAN assistance
  Peter Pembleton, UNIDO
  
  
• Barriers to transfer of technologies to least developed countries (LDCs)
  Bubu Pateh Jallow, On behalf of the Chairman LDC Expert Group (LEG)
  Shigetaka Seki, Environmental Affairs Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan

• Workshop on enabling environments for technology transfer
  Andrej Kranjc, Ministry of the Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy, Slovenia

Other documents      

Enabling environments for technology transfer - Draft technical paper

Further information

The Centre for Sustainable Development at the Ghent University, Belgium, with the support of the State Secretariat for Energy and Sustainable Development and the Ministry of the Flemish Community (AMINAL), organized a series of lectures on "Transfer of environmentally sound technology to developing countries within the context of the climate change Convention".