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Climate Ambition Needs Targeted Technology Collaboration

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It is widely accepted that technology development and diffusion is critical to meet climate targets, yet specific stakeholder and institutional roles, as well as integration costs, remain largely undefined at a macro level. This chapter sheds light on the elements that hold key to actualising technologies through frameworks that allow for cooperative and collaborative arrangements of burden-sharing, rather than maintaining strategic competitive advantages. It highlights, first, the kinds of technologies that will be crucial for meeting climate goals and the uncertainties associated with them. Uncertainties pertain to development pathways, economic growth, technological development and costs, socio-political factors, and secondary and tertiary impacts. Next, the chapter examines existing multilateral frameworks for technology development and diffusion to identify the gaps therein. Finally, it outlines the principles for more effective technology partnerships to meet stringent climate stabilisation targets and submits templates for three alternative modalities for technological development, ranging from those that are ready to scale but need commercial pilots, to horizon technologies that have significant risks.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Dellink et al. (2017), KC and Lutz (2017), Riahi et al. (2017), Kriegler et al. (2017) and IPCC SAR WG3 (1996).

  2. 2.

    Chaturvedi et al. (2018).

  3. 3.

    Chaturvedi et al. (2017).

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    Hultman et al. (2007).

  5. 5.

    Chaturvedi et al. (2018).

  6. 6.

    Chaturvedi et al. (2018).

  7. 7.

    See, for example: Riahi et al. (2017), Chaturvedi et al. (2018), Dellink et al. (2017), KC and Lutz (2017), Kriegler et al. (2017) and IPCC SAR WG3 (1996).

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    Pasztor et al. (2019).

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    Ghosh (2018a).

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    Ghosh (2018a).

  11. 11.

    Ghosh (2018a).

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    Pasztor et al. (2019).

  13. 13.

    Ghosh (2018a).

  14. 14.

    See, for example, UNFCCC (1992) and UNFCCC (2006).

  15. 15.

    UNFCCC (2010).

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    See, for example, publications listed here: http://unfccc.int/ttclear/tec/documents.html.

  17. 17.

    https://www.ctc-n.org/technical-assistance/request-visualizations.

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    UNFCCC (2010).

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    Climate Technology Centre and Network (2019a).

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    Climate Technology Centre and Network (2019b).

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    Climate Technology Centre and Network (2019b).

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    The CTCN does not benefit from any structural funding—this is a key barrier to fulfilling its mandate. Its request-realisations are contingent on raised funds, several of which are tied to financing terms and preferences.

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    Mission Innovation (2018a).

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    Mission Innovation (2018b).

  25. 25.

    Mission Innovation (2019).

  26. 26.

    Ghosh (2017a).

  27. 27.

    Ghosh (2017a).

  28. 28.

    Ghosh and Chawla (2018).

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    Ghosh (2017a).

  30. 30.

    US-China Clean Energy Research Centre (2019).

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    Lewis (2014).

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    Ghosh (2015).

  33. 33.

    Ghosh et al. (2015).

  34. 34.

    Ghosh and Ray (2015).

  35. 35.

    Ghosh et al. (2015).

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    Ghosh (2015).

  37. 37.

    Ghosh (2016).

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    Ghosh (2017b).

  39. 39.

    Gupta et al. (2016).

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    Kuldeep et al. (2017).

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    Ghosh (2017c).

  42. 42.

    Ghosh (2017a).

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    Ghosh (2018b).

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    Ghosh (2017a).

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    Ghosh (2017a).

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Ghosh, A., Chaturvedi, V., Bhasin, S. (2019). Climate Ambition Needs Targeted Technology Collaboration. In: Kathuria, R., Kukreja, P. (eds) 20 Years of G20. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8106-5_9

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