Technology is widely regarded as one of the most powerful tools to deal with climate change.
Technology Transfer (and related financing) has been a key demand during 20 years of climate negotiations, including the upcoming negotiations in Paris.
But there is still limited understanding of what works and what doesn't.
A number of climate/energy technology partnerships have been launched around the world, many of which have emerged over the past decade.
Some are forums, some are policies, some are regions or cities --
Some tasks for specific technologies.
My colleagues and I reviewed more than 30 initiatives and found that few have designed them in addition to sharing knowledge and some initial R & D activities.
Fewer countries have expanded their functional focus on the actual transfer of equipment, joint production or extensive deployment of tasks.
We have been pinning our hopes on the talk shop.
There are three obstacles to partnerships: lack of appropriate funding, intellectual property restrictions, and lack of capacity or utilization.
For existing technologies, it is difficult to deploy on a large scale unless appropriate funding is available.
Entrepreneurs need upfront financing to cover the capital costs of clean energy technologies, current capital held in stock, and funds to pay for intellectual property licensing fees.
Business models such as rural micro-loans
Power grids may be feasible, but they often fail to attract the attention of large institutional investors due to their small size.
India's domestic high-efficiency lighting program will cut costs by 60 by expanding public procurement and distribution of LED bulbs in 100 cities.
Second, innovators need clear market signals to develop new technologies.
Public policy intervention
Whether it's by setting carbon prices, investing in direct R & D, or guaranteeing the lowest prices for emerging technologies --
It is necessary to stimulate private investment.
S. Department of Energy's SunShot program was designed for this purpose, leading to a sharp decline in utilities
Price of solar energy.
Another approach is to develop partnerships in which contributing companies/research institutions retain their original intellectual property rights but share the return on new technologies.
The global partnership in agriculture, genetics, particle physics and nuclear fusion has adopted a similar approach of cooperation
Development and Cooperation
Ownership of intellectual property, as is India
S. joint clean energy R & D center in solar energy, energy efficiency and biofuels.
Thirdly, in order to be inclusive and effective, partnerships should contribute to capacity-building in weaker partner countries in order to ensure that they are widely deployed rather than being held by a small number of people as they have in the past.
Members need to contribute not only in hard currency. In-
The physical contribution of the researcher, facility or demonstration project land can be a way to recognize and appropriately reward the contribution of all members.
These lessons suggest that India can be a major partner in the two new initiatives.
The first one is more
National partnerships in energy access and decentralized energy.
Decentralized energy entrepreneurs combine innovation in technology and business models (400 companies in India alone );
Millions of solar home systems have been deployed in Bangladesh;
Innovative Mobile payment mechanisms are being used in East Africa;
In Southeast Asia, opportunities exist for the use of agricultural waste in cogeneration systems.
Developed countries also have rich experience.
The energy access partnership fund could increase access to liquidity in the Far East
Flung small entrepreneurs, pay licensing fees, underwrite experiments with a business model, connect with larger investors by aggregating projects.
The fund, initially funded by public finance, can attract institutional investment through sovereign-guaranteed green bonds.
The fund will focus on deployment and support skills training in rural communities to build, serve and maintain decentralized energy systems.
The partnership will also support centres to test and certify products and create model regulatory codes.
The second idea is more
National partnerships in energy storage and grid balance, which are necessary for the inclusion of large quantities of renewable energy into the grid, as well as for personal and public transport and off-site applicationsgrid systems.
Countries such as China, France, Germany, Japan and the United States are conducting research and manufacturing.
India can get 30 cents of electricity from non-Indian countries
By 2030, India had the opportunity to become a global storage research and development, testing and commercial laboratory.
A pre-market commitment to purchasing storage technology can meet the needs needed to drive private R & D investments.
Innovative financing such as top-
Increasing the choice of tools or tradable options can reduce public financial expenditures now or in the future.
The partnership can support the classification market assessment;
Pilot projects in developing countries; agree on co-
Having a new storage technology license;
Identify possible joint ventures in the supply chain;
And a policy framework to integrate these technologies.
Last month, Prime Minister Modi called for a "global public partnership" at the United Nations to leverage technology, innovation and finance to make clean and renewable energy affordable for all.
"The contribution identified by India's intended countries proposes" global collaborative research on clean coal, renewable energy management and storage systems [.
"India also intends to host a Global Solar Energy Alliance, the international solar policy and application agency.
Proposed partnership
Access and storage-
Neatly embedded in these ideas, there is a wide range
Functional and improved design.
If Paris could spark an effective climate technology partnership, it would be a transformative breakthrough in the past.