Transcript Technology Transfer - Global Environment Facility

The GEF Experience in Financing
Technology Transfer: Overview
Sub-regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points in Asia
Bangkok, 7-8 April 2009
GEF Policies and Strategies on Technology Transfer
 From the pilot phase to GEF-1 (1991-98)
• Demonstrating a wide range of technologies to reduce GHG
emissions, both long-term and short-term
 From GEF-2 to GEF-3 (1998-06)
• Removing barriers to the widespread adoption of energy
efficiency, renewable energy, and urban transport technologies
and practices
 GEF-4 (2006-10)
• More focused strategic programs to achieve large benefits of
GHG reductions
GEF has been engaged in technology transfer since its
creation.
 GEF’s approach has conformed closely to the
Convention’s technology transfer framework.
GEF Support of Climate Change Technology Transfer
 Allocated about $2.5b for
climate change projects, with
$15b in co-financing
 Provided financial support to
national communications,
technology needs
assessments, and mitigation
and adaptation projects to over
130 countries
 Supported deployment and
diffusion of more than 30
climate-friendly technologies
GEF-4 Strategic Programs for Climate Change Mitigation
 Energy-efficient buildings and
appliances
 Energy efficiency in the
industrial sector
 Market approaches to
renewable energy
 Sustainable energy production
from biomass
 Innovative systems for
sustainable urban transport
 Land use, land-use change,
and forestry
Examples of Technolgies
 Renewable Energy
• Building-integrated photovoltaic power
production
• Stationary fuel-cell power generation
 Residential Energy Efficiency
• Lighting and appliances
• District heating systems
 Industrial Energy Efficiency
• High efficiency industrial boilers
 Sustainable Urban Transport
• Traffic demand management
• Bus Rapid Transit Systems
Convention Guidance to GEF on Technology Transfer
 Convention Article 4.5
• … developed country Parties and other developed Parties
included in Annex II 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.
 Convention Article 11
• A mechanism for the provision of financial resources on a
grant or concessional basis, including for the transfer of
technology, is hereby defined. It shall function under the
guidance of and be accountable to the Conference of the
Parties, which shall decide on its policies, program
priorities and eligibility criteria related to this Convention.
 Convention guidance to GEF since COP 1 on
technology transfer
Poznan Strategic Programme on Technology Transfer
 Support for technology needs assessments
(TNAs)
 Support for priority pilot projects
 Dissemination of successfully
demonstrated climate-friendly
technologies
Technology Needs Assessments
 Implementation process
• Planning process started in Dec 2008
• First stakeholder planning meeting in Jan 2009
• Global project by UNEP to start in March 2009
 Field testing the revised TNA Handbook with 510 countries
 Progress report to SBI 30 and COP 15
 More countries to be supported for preparing
and updating their TNA based on their request
Concluding Remarks
 GEF has been a financial mechanism for technology
transfer since it was created 18 years ago.
 As financial mechanism of the Convention, GEF has
been one of the largest public funder of technology
transfer for climate change mitigation.
 GEF has provided support for TNAs and other enabling
activities to more than 130 developing countries.
 Preparation of second round of TNAs is underway.
 GEF has supported the deployment, diffusion, and
transfer of more than 30 climate change mitigation
technologies in over 50 countries.
 GEF will continue to respond to Convention guidance
and scale up its support for technology transfer in the
future.
Contact Information
Dr. Robert K. Dixon
Leader, Climate and Chemicals Team
Global Environment Facility
Email: [email protected]
Tel. (202) 473-2340
Website: www.TheGEF.org