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On the first day of this UNFCCC workshop, I had the pleasure of chairing a session which reported on the outcomes of the 2nd Climate Technology Initiative/Industry Joint Seminar on Technology Diffusion in the Asia – Pacific

On the first day of this UNFCCC workshop, I had the pleasure


of chairing a session which reported on the outcomes of the 2nd


Climate Technology Initiative/Industry Joint Seminar on


Technology Diffusion in the Asia – Pacific.



As was the case at our Seminar last week, this very well organized workshop has also provided an opportunity for open and free discussion of issues related to effective technology transfer under UNFCCC. From these complementary events have emerged some extremely useful insights into possible elements of a framework for meaningful and effective actions to enhance the implementation of technology transfer under the Convention.


I feel it is important for me to note that the CTI event had more private sector and NGO representatives. Being able to bring together a group of different composition, allowed the CTI to broaden input to the consultative process.


As we know, the CTI was formed to support the objectives of the Framework Convention by fostering international cooperation for the accelerated development and diffusion of climate-friendly technologies and practices. To accomplish this, the CTI engages in a variety of capacity building and technology enhancing activities, including regional technology training courses, technology needs assessments, research and development, and regional technology diffusion seminars.

As such, the CTI is itself a “meaningful and effective” action to support the implementation of Article 4.5 of the Convention, in that it is already enhancing indigenous capacity and facilitating access to, and transfer of technologies to developing country Parties.


For example, several capacity building needs were identified during the Working Group Discussions over the past few day, including the fact that Training and Technical Guidance is an essential element for effective technology transfer. The CTI series of regional technology training courses seems well fitted to respond to such needs for greater technical skills within the region to absorb contemporary technologies. To be responsive to the Asian-Pacific region, such training courses, designed to build indigenous capacity, might appropriately be focused on topics such as adaptation technologies and project development and finance.

In the area of technology assessment, the CTI is working on a collaborative basis with developing and transition countries to establish a Cooperative Technology Implementation Plan or CTIP. This is a bottom-up approach which begins with in-country and, as necessary, external experts conducting, on a sectoral basis, a technology needs assessment consistent with the country’s growth plans for that portion of their economy. Once the country-driven priority technologies are identified, there is further collaboration between the relevant in-country and external stakeholders from the business, finance, and technical communities, leading to the development of a CTIP which lays out a step-wise approach to implementing technologies consistent with the identified needs. This on-going CTI activity seems particularly well suited to respond to some of the comments during this workshop regarding the need to develop the ability to assess technology needs consistent with the sustainable development goals of the particular country.


During the course of the past few days there have been many constructive discussions with the Asian participants regarding future CTI activities in the region, including a possible workshop on adaptation technologies. We look to forward to further follow-up.


I wish to commend all those that participated in the events over the past few days. I truly believe that this workshop and the preceding CTI seminar have been successful in promoting an open and free discussion of the issues and questions presented in Decision 4 taken at COP 4 and have raised the level of mutual understanding of what capacity building and technology transfer really are, and, most importantly, how these conceptual ends can be translated into reality.


Thank you for your attention.


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