To implement clean technologies in poor countries it takes more than money
The Climate Summit in Paris started with a million promises the level of investment in clean technologies, but the success of these initiatives in developing countries depend on their ability to receive and apply the same, and aid that will have to do so.
Leaders State and billionaires opened the Paris summit to announce major investments in clean technology and stress the need to transfer this technology to developing countries, but experts warn that the success of these raids will depend not only on approval of funding to countries most vulnerable, such as the ability of these receive and place on the ground these innovations.
On the first day of the Climate Conference, Bill Gates announced the creation of a fund of 20 billion dollars (about 18, EUR 9 billion) to support investment in clean energy in developing countries. The Microsoft co-founder also spoke passionately about the possibility of generating energy through a process of artificial photosynthesis.
On the same day, November 30, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, presented the International Solar Alliance, which brings together 121 countries located between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, some of which have over 300 days of sunshine per year. The purpose of this coalition is to ensure technology transfer and financing for development in all countries with solar potential capacity to generate energy.
Angela Merkel, in her opening speech at the Climate Summit, stressed the need to transfer technology to developing countries to assist in the transition to a green economy.
However, experts warn that it will be difficult to transfer technology quickly to where it is most needed unless negotiators agreed under funding for developing countries. “I think the elephant in the room is still the funding,” considered Yvo de Boer, former head of the secretariat for climate change at the United Nations, quoted by Reuters.
On the other hand, many countries are not simply prepared to receive large transfers of technology. For certain more vulnerable countries adapt to the new technologies, must have the right institutions, regulations and skilled workforce on the ground, writes Reuters.
The US Department of advanced research in energy (ARPA -And, in the English acronym) found in previous projects that many of the workers in the poorest countries “were unable to keep new projects, so things fail,” said Cheryl Martin, former director of the institution.
During the Conference Climate in Paris, negotiators need to map how they will be provided the funds from developed countries to developing countries, fundamental to prepare to perform this technological transition.
Developed countries promised in 2009 at the Copenhagen Climate Conference, to finance developing countries 100 billion dollars a year from 2020 through the Green Climate Fund.
Millions promised investment in technology ” should not be seen as a substitute for public funding expected to be on the table to unlock a strong agreement by the end of next week “, when ending the Climate Conference, warns Tim Gore, Oxfam International, quoted by Reuters .
“We need to ensure that the competitiveness of even the least developed countries is driven with these opportunities and that they are not left behind,” said Jonathan Coony, Technology Program Coordinator for the World Bank’s Climate. The least developed countries need to invest in manufacturing capacity, research and develop their own green economy rather than “stay only as a technology of pickups,” he added.
Intellectual property can be anything barrier to this technology transfer that is intended to operate. India and other countries with less financial capacity, for example, have said for years that the patented technology is too expensive and want that green technologies are treated as a public good.
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