The Durban Climate Talks: Making the Technology Mechanism Useful
The Durban Climate Talks: Making the Technology Mechanism Useful / Nathan Hultman, Brookings Institution, 9/12/2011
http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/1209_technology_mechanism_hultman.aspx
There is little controversy that developing and implementing better technologies must form the core of any successful global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Moreover, there is a renewed focus in international discussions on embedding and encouraging the innovation process in all parts of the world, not just in advanced economies. Such a process would help facilitate the broad implementation of better technologies in places making major and sustained capital investments in energy, housing, and transportation infrastructure over the coming decades…