Future Needs in Research Development and Demonstration Report

The survey provides an overview of future RD&D needs and key barriers and enablers to meet these, both globally and specifically in developed and developing economies, and serves as a starting point to identify areas for further analysis.

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The objective of the survey is to achieve a comprehensive overview of the current and future global RD&D needs to fundamentally decarbonize human activity in line with the targets of the Paris Agreement

Although the global RD&D environment is seen as slightly favorable overall, both developing and developed economies face a number of challenges in scaling high-impact emission-reduction technologies and meeting their RD&D needs.
The stand-out technology sector across almost all regions and professions is energy storage.

Good practices and lessons learned on international collaborative RD&D initiatives of climate technology

Compilation of Good Practices

Executive Summaries

The technology framework adopted at the Climate Change Conference in Katowice provides overarching guidance to the work of the TEC while serving the Paris Agreement and recognizes that there is a pressing need to accelerate and strengthen technological innovation so that it can transfer environmentally and socially sound, cost-effective and better-performing climate technologies on a larger and more widespread scale. It also indicates that fostering innovation could be done inter alia through new collaborative approaches to climate technology research, development and demonstration (RD&D).

Responding to this mandate, the TEC, which has been working on technology innovation and RD&D since 2013, agreed to produce a compilation of good practices and lessons learned on countries' RD&D.

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This compilation analyses selected bilateral and multilateral projects and programmes in Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and North America in sectors such as energy supply, agriculture and water management.

It elaborates on case studies’ collaborative designs, policy and financial drivers, inclusiveness, intellectual property rights, approaches to communication and outreach, inter alia.

The outcome is to extract good practices and lessons learned, aiming to facilitate the sharing of information on international technology RD&D partnerships and initiatives as well as the effective participation of developing countries in collaborative RD&D initiatives on climate technologies.

[The list of the international collaborative RD&D initiatives considered for the selection of the case studies is available here ]

Executive summaries offer a general outline of the committee’s messages on international collaborative RD&D. The messages have been tailored to present the essential information for each of the four target groups on a single page.

Domestic policy makers

Academic and research institutions

International organizations

Private sector actors