Transcript Enhancing the implementation of the findings of Technology

Enhancing the
implementation of the
findings of Technology
Needs Assessments
Bert van der Plas
UNFCCC
Training of trainers workshop on preparing technology
transfer projects for financing
Vienna, 29 September – 1 October 2008
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Overview
• Technology transfer under the UNFCCC
• Technology transfer framework
• Technology needs assessments
• Innovative options for financing the development and
transfer of technologies
• Implementing TNAs
• UNFCCC guidebook on preparing technology
transfer projects for financing
• Training programme on preparing projects for
financing
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Technology Transfer under the UNFCCC
• Technology transfer guided by Article 4.5 of the Convention
“The developed country Parties … shall take all practicable steps to
promote, facilitate and finance, as appropriate, the transfer of, or
access to, environmentally sound technologies and know-how to other
Parties, particularly developing country Parties, to enable them to
implement the provisions of the Convention…”
• At COP 7 Parties reached a consensus
– Adopt a framework for meaningful and effective actions to enhance
the implementation of Art. 4.5 of the Convention (“Technology
transfer framework”)
– Establish an Expert Group on Technology Transfer (EGTT)
– Provide financial support to technology transfer activities through
GEF (climate change focal area and special climate change fund)
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Technology Transfer framework
• Five key themes and areas of work
– Technology needs and needs assessments
– Technology Information
– Enabling environments
– Capacity building
– Mechanisms
• New areas of work
– Innovative options for financing the development
and transfer of technology
– Technologies for adaptation to climate change
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Technology needs assessments (TNAs)
• Synthesis of technology needs assessments
identified by non-Annex I Parties
– Highlights priority technology needs to reduce GHG
emissions and facilitate adaptation to the adverse impacts of
climate change based on information contained in 23 TNAs
and 25 national communications submitted by NAI-Parties
– Draws attention to specific barriers to technology transfer
and suggests measures to address them, including through
capacity-building
– Highlights ways used to involve stakeholders in a
consultative process to conduct TNAs, including the
methodologies and criteria used to prioritize technology
needs
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Other - 4.2%
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Miscellaneous
30
Waste management - 29.2%
40
Miscellaneous
Other
Transport - 50%
Agriculture & forestry - 33.3%
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Crop management
Forestry
Freight
Unspecified public transport
Facilities
Management & policy improvements
Industry - 79.2%
Vehicles
Aluminium industry
Fuel switching
Mining
Others
Bread making industry
Furnaces
Steel industry
High efficiency motors
Transmission - 25%
Energy - 91.7% of Parties
Cement Production
Miscellaneous industries
Boilers
Industrial energy efficiency
Miscellaneous
District heating
50
Buildings & residential - 87.5%
60
Other
Green buildings materials & design
Energy efficient appliances
Other
Advanced fossil fuel
Legacy improvements
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Coal
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Generation - 91.7%
90
CT
Unspecified power generation
GTCC
DSM
CHP (cogeneration)
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Per cent of Parties
TNAs | What are commonly identified mitigation technologies in TNAs?
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TNAs | What are main barriers to technology transfer identified by country?
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Innovative options for financing the
development and transfer of technology
• Purpose: Improve access to financing for technology transfer
projects and programmes both from public and private sources
• Activities:
– Workshops on innovative financing
– A ‘disconnect’ exists among development professionals,
entrepreneurs who identify projects and those who
provide resources (services and funding)
– Many ‘fit for purpose’ tools and many general ‘how-to’
instructions but there exists a need for a more complete,
accessible, balanced, process oriented and modular
guide to preparing and presenting proposals
– UNFCCC Guidebook on preparing technology transfer
projects for financing (“Practitioners’ guide”)
– Hands-on training on preparing project proposals for financing
– Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN)
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Implementing TNAs
TNA’s
Project ideas
ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
Technical assistance:
TT:CLEAR
• Practitioners guide
• Training and coaching
Project financing proposals
Matchmaking
• Helpdesk
Financial assistance:
• Public (multilateral, bilateral)
• Private
Financial closing
• Project finance platform
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Implementing TNAs | What are main opportunities for financing the implementation of TNA
findings?
•Trust Fund
•SCCF
•LDCF
Adaptation Fund
FINANCIAL
MECHANISM (GEF)
CDM/JI
BILATERAL
• ODA (OECD/DAC)
• Seed financing
• Green Financing
Convention and KP
MULTILATERAL
• UNEP, UNDP, UNCTAD
• World Bank Carbon
Finance, CEFV, CESF
• IFC, EBRD
• EU COMMISSION (FP)
PPPs
Export Credit Agencies
PRIVATE SECTOR
• Commercial banks
• Micro financing
• Insurances
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UNFCCC guidebook on preparing
technology transfer projects for financing
• Challenges for project developers
– How to improve access to financing for project ideas identified from TNAs?
– How to convert project ideas to project proposals for financing?
– How to present project proposals for financing to finance providers?
• Objectives
– Improve access to financing for technology transfer projects and
programmes
– Assist project developers in DC in preparing project proposals for financing
– “Better projects, increased funding and shorter funding cycles enabled
through enhanced toolkits”
• Target groups
Project developers
(“Champions”)
Proposal
Finance providers
(“Enablers”)
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Training programme on preparing projects for financing
• Objectives
– Improve access to financing for projects related to environmentally sound
technologies to mitigate and/or adapt to climate change
– Strengthen the capacity of local project developers in developing
countries in preparing proposals for financing
– Improve the quality of project proposals
• Approach
– Build on existing training material (UNFCCC guidebook, etc.)
– Collaborate with international organizations (UNIDO, UNITAR, CTI)
– Staged approach initiated by a Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop
followed by regional training workshops
– Feed real-world project proposals into the workshops
– Coach participants in project preparation before/during/after workshops
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THANK YOU!
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