Promoting sustainable energy technology transfers to developing countries through the CDM

Gaast, Wytze van der; Begg, Katherine; Flamos, Alexandros

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2008.03.009

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“…Often, high cost of investment also affects the rate of adoption particularly where the STs are not available on the local market, thus imported [36]. Indeed, high cost drives potential buyers away irrespective of the need to address energy consumption in existing buildings [37]. Manufacturers are concerned with the ability to recover cost of investment; often this condition affects pricing [38].…”

Section: Barriers To the Adoption Of Sustainable Technologies For Susmentioning

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Barriers to Adoption of Sustainable Technologies for Energy-Efficient Building Upgrade—Semi-Structured Interviews

et al. 2018

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Abstract:Globally, only 2% of existing building stock is built yearly; the remaining 98% already exist. Energy consumption and indoor thermal comfort of the existing building stock are not encouraging. This is due to many challenges associated with existing buildings; the challenges range from cracks, leakages, poor insulation, heat losses and high rate of unsustainable technologies. This paper investigates possible barriers facing the adoption and application of sustainable technologies (STs) for sustainable or energy-efficient upgrade of existing buildings. New STs are manufactured on a regular basis to meet improved energy efficiency standards, yet there are minimal actions/attempts to adopt and apply improved technologies in existing buildings for energy efficiency. Indeed, there are limited studies focused on the use of qualitative approaches to identify barriers to adoption and use of STs. Thus, a semi-structured interview approach was adopted and applied using sustainability/energy efficiency professionals, building services engineers, project managers, architects, and facility managers in Australia. The results indicate that barriers to the adoption and application of sustainable technologies are perceived benefits in demolish-and-build, age of building, cost of STs, perceived poor payback time, unreliable energy-savings projections, existing design, hidden and overall cost of renovation, and cost of STs.

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Section: Barriers To the Adoption Of Sustainable Technologies For Susmentioning

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Barriers to Adoption of Sustainable Technologies for Energy-Efficient Building Upgrade—Semi-Structured Interviews

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“…The following paragraphs summarize the identified strategic actions to be a taken by a country, so as to accelerate the development and transfer of the priority technologies. The actions are groups in three general categories, namely technology information, enabling environment, and capacity building [59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66]. More particular: The econometric model which is proposed to be used is presented below.…”

Section: Rd Component-define: Definition Of Strategic Actions For Thmentioning

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A Holistic Approach for Addressing the Issue of Effective Technology Transfer in the Frame of Climate Change

Karakosta

2016

Energies

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Climate change policy and sustainable development issues and goals are closely intertwined. Recognizing the dual relationship between sustainable development and climate change points to a need for the exploration of actions that jointly address sustainable development and climate change. Technology transfer is considered an issue with growing interest worldwide and has been recognized as the key in supporting countries to achieve sustainable development, while addressing climate change challenges. This study presents an integrated decision support methodological framework for the formulation and evaluation of activities to promote technology transfer, as well as the provision of clear recommendations and strategies for framing specific policy in the context of climate change. The philosophy of the proposed approach, under the name: assess-identify-define (AID), consists of three components, where each one focuses on a particular problem. The methodology is integrated using appropriate tools in the information decision support system for effective technology transfer (DSS-ETT). The pilot application of the proposed methodology, in five representative developing countries, provided the possibility to evaluate the characteristics of the adopted methodology in terms of completeness, usability, extensionality, as well as analysis of results reliability.

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“…Different definitions of technology transfer have been used by different scholars in assessing CDM's contribution to technology transfer (Pueyo 2007;Dechezleprêtre et al 2009;Schneider et al 2008;Seres 2007;van der Gaast et al 2009;de Coninck et al 2007;Haites et al 2006;Olsen and Fenhann 2008;Murdiyarso et al 2008;Garcia-Quijano et al 2005;Georgiou et al 2008;Schroeder 2009;UNFCCC 2010;Karakosta et al 2009a and b Olsen & Fenhann (2008) analyze SD claims made in 744 Project Development Documents (PDD) and find that distribution of SD benefits among the economic, environmental and social dimensions is fairly even, with most benefits in the social dimension. This is also supported by Subbarao and Lloyd (2011) based on the analysis of 500 small scale renewable energy projects.…”

Section: Technology Transfermentioning

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A two-track CDM: improved incentives for sustainable development and offset production

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The literature assessing the performance of the CDM shows that the mechanism is weak with regard to sustainable development and problematic with regard to offset production. One explanation for weak performance is the difficulty of combining sustainable development with offset production in many CDM projects. Many of the proposals to address these drawbacks face the challenge of political feasibility. This paper argues that a way forward is to split the CDM into a two-track mechanism, with one track for offset production and the other for offset production with emphasis on sustainable development benefits.

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Promoting sustainable energy technology transfers to developing countries through the CDM

Cited by 86 publications

References 2 publications

Barriers to Adoption of Sustainable Technologies for Energy-Efficient Building Upgrade—Semi-Structured Interviews

Barriers to Adoption of Sustainable Technologies for Energy-Efficient Building Upgrade—Semi-Structured Interviews

A Holistic Approach for Addressing the Issue of Effective Technology Transfer in the Frame of Climate Change

A two-track CDM: improved incentives for sustainable development and offset production

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