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November 13, 2011 Whatever Happened to Technology Transfer?
By Brianna Craft
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The 17th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) at Durban this November will not be concluded without a vote for – and, most probably, an extended financial commitment to – Technology Transfer. Technology Transfer (TT) in the context of the UNFCCC refers to the transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries in the hopes that they achieve two aims. First, that recipients would use the technologies to leapfrog high greenhouse gas emissions forms of development and pursue cleaner growth strategies than they would be able to enact if left to their own devices. Second, that recipients might be better equipped to deal with the potentially devastating consequences of a changing climate.
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