UNFCCC workshop on Innovative Options for Financing the Development and Transfer of Technologies

Intercontinental Hotel, Montreal, Canada, 27-29 September 2004

Mandate

The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its nineteenth session, endorsed the programme of work of the Expert Group on Technology Transfer (EGTT) for 2004. This programme of work includes a new area of work related to innovative financing for the development and transfer of technologies. At the same session, the SBSTA requested the secretariat to organize a workshop on innovative options for financing the development and transfer of technologies, taking into consideration terms of reference recommended by the EGTT, and to report on the findings of the workshop to the SBSTA at its twenty-first session. The SBSTA, at its twentieth session, endorsed the recommendation of the EGTT that the workshop on innovative options for financing the development and transfer of technologies should have a practical focus, utilizing to the greatest extent possible actual innovative financing situations and experiences. The workshop should also be built around a series of case studies encompassing the experience of a range of stakeholders and stages of technology and market development, including assessments of the ability of various innovative options for financing arrangements to meet the needs identified during technology needs assessments.

Documents

• Agenda
• Workshop report
• List of participants
• Background paper
• Information for participants

Presentations

• Background and context
  Wanna Tanunchaiwatana, UNFCCC Secretariat

• Trends in Financial Flows and Technology Transfer
  Daniele Violetti, UNFCCC Secretariat

• Innovative Financing Options for Climate Change-related, Transfer and Development of Technologies
  Paul van Aalst, Consultant, UNFCCC Secretariat

• Finacial and technical cross-pollination of projects with funds
  George Sorenson, FE Clean Energy Group 

• It's All About Risks
  Charles Donovan, CAT Alliance Ltd.

• Commercializing Swiss Re’s Sustainability Commitment via Innovative Financing Options
  Martin Whittaker, Swiss Re Financial Services

• Facing the energy future - is sustainability possible?
  Raymond Wright, Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica

• African Rural Energy Enterprise Development: A New Approach to Public-Private Partnership
  Youba Sokona, Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS)

• Financing Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets – Opportunities & Approaches
  Frank Joshua, Climate Investment Partnership

• Cleantech venturing - performance, players and potential
  Nicholas Parker, Cleantech venture Network LLC

• Financing the Development and Transfer of Technologies under UNFCCC: Perspectives from China’s Practice
  Ji Zou,Department of Environmental Economics and Management Renmin University of China

• Are Export Credit Agencies and Other Traditional Sources of Infrastructure Financing Still Relative?
  John Balint, International Financial Consulting

• Engaging local Financial Institutions in Project Development and Implementation
  Patrick J. D’Addario, Fiorello H. LaGuardia Foundation

• Equity Finance for Renewable Energy
  Peter Rossbach, IMPAX

• Private sector development & financing of (power) projects & technology transfer practical experiences of project pre-development & financing in sub-Saharan Africa
  Peter Storey, HERA International

• Technology development and transfer: moving from negotiations to implementation
  William Kojo Agyemang-Bonsu, environmental protection agency, Ghana

Documents

Background paper on "Innovative Options for Financing the Development and Transfer of Technologies in the Context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)