Assessing climate change mitigation technology interventions by international institutions

Coninck, H.C. de; Puig, Daniel

doi:10.1007/s10584-015-1344-z

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“…For developing countries, especially LDCs and SIDS, a TNA is a good starting point for the conception of a national climate and development strategy in which stakeholders from government, business, and research institutes work together. According to De Coninck and Puig (), for many countries the TNA was the first time this cooperation was done. This “highlighted both the benefits of cooperation (…) and the challenges associated with it.” As such, the TNA process does not only contribute to the development of a vision and priorities to be used in the NDC but also to national institutional capacity for climate and development planning.…”

Section: Use Of Tna Lessons In Ndcs and Implementationmentioning

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Enhancing ambition levels in nationally determined contributions—Learning from Technology Needs Assessments

Gaast¹

2018

WIREs Energy & Environment

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Under the Paris Agreement, countries are to develop nationally determined contributions (NDCs) every 5 years, outlining their climate targets and plans. In order to ease this task, countries may use the experiences with the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) program. In this paper, lessons with TNAs since 2001 are described, and it is analyzed how countries, with a focus on developing countries, may use these lessons in strengthening and implementing their successive NDCs. While some developing countries have already used the results of their TNA process in their NDC development, countries could benefit from following the TNA process, its stakeholder involvement, and the multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methodology, to strengthen their NDCs. Countries face challenges in their NDC with regard to the embedding of the contribution into the national development strategy, getting from plans to implementation, and the mobilization of finance. Through the positive and negative experiences with TNAs, countries can overcome these challenges. It is argued that all countries can use the TNA or parts thereof in their NDC process. For developing countries (mainly Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States) the TNA is useful for capacity building, strategy development, and the preparation of projects for investment with international support. Emerging markets and newly-industrialized countries can use the TNA as a participatory approach for strategy development. Developed countries generally do not need the entire TNA process, but the participatory approaches and MCDA can be used to fine-tune modeled strategies.

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Section: Use Of Tna Lessons In Ndcs and Implementationmentioning

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Enhancing ambition levels in nationally determined contributions—Learning from Technology Needs Assessments

Gaast¹

2018

WIREs Energy & Environment

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“…Originating from the Poznan Strategic Programme on Technology Transfer, which was established through decision 2/CP.14 at the Fourteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 14) to the UNFCCC in 2008, the ongoing TNA process aims to increase the level of investment in the transfer and diffusion of technology to assist developing countries address their needs for environmentally sound technologies (UNFCCC, 2008). These technologies (also referred to in the literature as "climate technologies") are geared at aiding developing countries to follow a more sustainable path towards mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change (de Coninck & Puig, 2015). The TNA guide note (Haselip, Narkeviciute & Rogat 2015, pp 4.)…”

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“…In efforts to mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) and adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change already being experienced, Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have long highlighted the role of technology in facilitating the achievement of their respective development goals in a more sustainable manner (Glachant & Dechezleprêtre, 2017;de Coninck & Puig, 2015;UNFCCC, 2008;UNFCCC, 2001). In the case of developing country Parties to the UNFCCC, assistance in determining their technology needs and priorities, and in promoting the transfer and diffusion of these prioritized technologies is being provided through the global Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) process (http://www.tech-action.org/) 1 .…”

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The nexus between nationally determined contributions and technology needs assessments: a global analysis

Charlery

Trærup

2018

Climate Policy

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The role of technology in combatting climate change through mitigation and adaptation to its inevitable impacts have been acknowledged and highlighted by the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In the developing world, this has received particular attention through the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) process.As Parties put forward their national pledges to combat climate change, the scarcity of resources makes it important to assess (i) whether national processes designed to tackle climate change are working together and (ii) whether existing national processes should be terminated with the initiation of new ones. This study presents an assessment of the existing TNA process and its linkages to the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), soon to enter implementation. The conclusions stem from an assessment of the TNAs completed to date, as well as 71 NDCs from developing countries at various stages of the TNA process. The analyses show that further developing the TNAs could play a vital role in filling gaps in the existing NDCs, specifically those relating to identifying appropriate technologies, their required enabling framework conditions and preparing implementation plans for their transfer and diffusion. Key Policy Insights:(1) The full potential of the TNAs has still to be rolled out in many countries.(2) Developing countries can better maximize the potential of their TNAs by (a) further developing them to explicitly analyse what is needed to implement existing NDCs and support their future strengthening so that their outlined targets can be achieved, and (b) better aligning focus, scope and up-to-dateness of the TNAs to be more consistent with the priority sectors included in the NDCs.(3) The request of developing countries for international assistance, through technology transfer, will be better guided by the completion of the TNA process.(4) Policies for implementing and strengthening the NDCs will benefit from the results of completed, ongoing and future TNA processes.

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“…In particular, this builds on recent scholarly efforts to connect insights from Innovation Studies with issues of international climate policy and climate technology transfer (e.g. Sagar and Bloomberg New Energy Finance 2010;Ockwell and Mallett 2012;Hansen and Ockwell 2014;de Coninck and Puig 2015;Watson et al 2015). This work has sought to move beyond the dominant Hardware Financing framing by wrestling insights from the Innovation Studies literature into a framework that can deal with the context of often less mature low carbon technologies (Ockwell et al 2008), new patterns of technology flows (Lema and Lema 2013), including South-South (Brewer 2008), and the conditions of policy urgency that characterise climate change (as opposed to temporally neutral accounts of conventional technology transfer) (Ockwell and Mallett 2012).…”

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Sustainable Energy for All

Ockwell¹,

Byrne²

2016

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Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two-thirds of people in Sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital precursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international policy commitments seek to address this, but scholarship has failed to keep pace with policy ambitions, lacking both the empirical basis and the theoretical perspective to inform such transformative policy aims.Sustainable Energy for All aims to fill this gap. Through detailed historical analysis of the Kenyan solar PV market, the book demonstrates the value of a new theoretical perspective based on Socio-Technical Innovation System Building. Importantly, the book goes beyond a purely academic critique to detail exactly how a Socio-Technical Innovation System Building approach might be operationalized in practice, facilitating both a detailed plan for future comparative research as well as a clear agenda for policy and practice. These plans are based on a systemic perspective that is more fit for purpose to inform transformative policy ambitions like the UN's Sustainable Energy for All by 2030 initiative and to underpin pro-poor pathways in sustainable energy access. This book will be of interest to academic researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in the field of sustainable energy access and low carbon development more broadly.

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Assessing climate change mitigation technology interventions by international institutions

Cited by 31 publications

References 11 publications

Enhancing ambition levels in nationally determined contributions—Learning from Technology Needs Assessments

Enhancing ambition levels in nationally determined contributions—Learning from Technology Needs Assessments

The nexus between nationally determined contributions and technology needs assessments: a global analysis

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