Methodological and Technological issues in Technology Transfer

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Executive Summary

This introductory Chapter sets out the landscape for the discussion, throughout the Special Report, of the multitude of facets of managing technological change in support of the Climate Change Convention and its Protocols. The framework proposed for decision-making by government policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders, emphasises the sustainable development perspective, while exploring the national and international political settings, trends in finance and trade, the organisational and institutional context, and the meanings of technology transfer and of the innovation system. A model of the latter and of pathways in technology transfer is presented to help understand the nature, motivations, barriers to the process, and possible options to promote sustainable development in the face of the climate change challenge.