Low Carbon Technologies for Our Cities of Future: Examining Mechanisms for Successful Transfer and Diffusion

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandrika Mehta ◽  
Uday Shankar ◽  
Tapas K. Bandopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
The One ◽  
Low Carbon Technologies ◽  
Low Carbon Energy ◽  
And Diffusion

The urge to adopt the proceedings at the recently concluded COP-21 with a binding legal status is indicative of the fact that nations now realise the seriousness of the issue, alike. The international community is just paving way for a low carbon, energy efficient planet. Rapid urbanisation has led to overpopulated cities that demand better quality of life for its residents. On the one hand, there is a global urge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and on the other hand, the world is moving towards a ‘smart’ future. Both these suppositions are interspersed by a common goal of sustainable development. Alternately, the discussion tends to focus on use of clean energy technologies. Cities will be at the centre of this unique and unprecedented challenge. This research seeks to explore the role that city governance plays in climate mitigation and adaptation at the global level. Furthermore, the article examines and evaluates low carbon technology as a choice to be inculcated in encountering climate change hazards and essentially looks into the modus operandi of the transfer and diffusion of low carbon/clean energy technologies.

Low Carbon Energy Innovations Systems in Natural Resource Rich Developing Countries

2016 ◽  
pp. 228-243
Author(s):  
André Tosi Furtado
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Innovation Mode ◽  
Low Carbon Energy ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Carbon Economy

The transition to low carbon economy requires deep changes in the energy systems of the great majority of developing countries. However, only a small group of these countries is engaging significant efforts to develop renewable energies. The success in the diffusion of renewable energy technologies requires dynamic systems of innovation. In this chapter we analyze the recent evolution Brazilian sugarcane innovation system that was pioneering in the development and diffusion of bioethanol. This system is increasingly challenged by the acceleration of the technological regime, which is provoked by the energy crisis and the transition to the low carbon economy. The Brazilian innovation system has different capacities to cope with this challenge. In this chapter we differentiate the agriculture subsystem, which function in a STI (Science, Technology, and Innovation) mode from the industrial subsystem, which operates in a DIU (Doing, Using, and Interacting) mode. The agricultural subsystem has demonstrated a better ability to cope with the technological challenges of the new biotech research methodologies while the capital goods industry has much less propensity to deal with the second generation technologies for bioethanol. We describe also the present ethanol supply crises and its probable causes.

scholarly journals CO2-capture research and Clean Energy Technologies Research Institute (CETRI) of University of Regina, Canada: history, current status and future development

Clean Energy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 883-890
Author(s):  
Paitoon (P T) Tontiwachwuthikul ◽  
Malcolm Wilson ◽  
Raphael Idem
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Capture ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Carbon Intensity ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Fuels And Chemicals ◽  
Low Carbon Energy ◽  
Research Institute

Summary Clean Energy Technologies Research Institute (CETRI) was formerly known as the International Test Centre for CO2 Capture in the early 2000s. The original focus of the centre was to help lower the carbon intensity of the current energy sources to low-carbon ones in Canada. Currently, CETRI’s mandates have expanded and now include most of the low-carbon and near-carbon-free clean-energy research activities. Areas of research focus include carbon (CO2) capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), near-zero-emission hydrogen (H2) technologies, and waste-to-renewable fuels and chemicals. CETRI also brings together one of the most dynamic teams of researchers, industry leaders, innovators and educators in the clean and low-carbon energy fields.

Low Carbon Energy Innovations Systems in Natural Resource Rich Developing Countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 1216-1231
Author(s):  
André Tosi Furtado
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Innovation Mode ◽  
Low Carbon Energy ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Carbon Economy

The transition to low carbon economy requires deep changes in the energy systems of the great majority of developing countries. However, only a small group of these countries is engaging significant efforts to develop renewable energies. The success in the diffusion of renewable energy technologies requires dynamic systems of innovation. In this chapter we analyze the recent evolution Brazilian sugarcane innovation system that was pioneering in the development and diffusion of bioethanol. This system is increasingly challenged by the acceleration of the technological regime, which is provoked by the energy crisis and the transition to the low carbon economy. The Brazilian innovation system has different capacities to cope with this challenge. In this chapter we differentiate the agriculture subsystem, which function in a STI (Science, Technology, and Innovation) mode from the industrial subsystem, which operates in a DIU (Doing, Using, and Interacting) mode. The agricultural subsystem has demonstrated a better ability to cope with the technological challenges of the new biotech research methodologies while the capital goods industry has much less propensity to deal with the second generation technologies for bioethanol. We describe also the present ethanol supply crises and its probable causes.

scholarly journals Sustainable energy for all or sustainable energy for men? Gender and the construction of identity within climate technology entrepreneurship in Kenya

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mipsie Marshall ◽  
David Ockwell ◽  
Rob Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
New Research ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

As international climate and development policy and funding efforts accelerate, this article articulates an urgent new research agenda aimed at redressing the existing failure of policy and research to attend to gender in relation to climate mitigation (as opposed to adaptation). Focusing on the transfer and uptake of low carbon energy technologies, including a review of the literature on women and entrepreneurship and critical discourse analysis of the treatment of climate technology entrepreneurs by infoDev (World Bank) in Kenya, the prevalence of private sector entrepreneurial approaches to climate and development policy and practice in this field is demonstrated to be reinforcing gendered power imbalances.

scholarly journals Global Trends in the Innovation and Diffusion of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedict Probst ◽  
Simon Touboul ◽  
Matthieu Glachant ◽  
Antoine Dechezleprêtre
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Innovation And Diffusion ◽  
Low Carbon Technologies ◽  
And Diffusion

Abstract Increasing the development and diffusion of low-carbon technologies on a global scale is critical to mitigating climate change. Based on over two million patents from 1995 to 2017 from 106 countries in all major climate mitigation technologies, our analysis shows an annual average low-carbon patenting growth rate of 10 percent from 1995 to 2013. Yet, from 2013 to 2017 low-carbon patenting rates have fallen by around 6 percent annually, likely driven by declining fossil fuel prices and, possibly, a readjustment of investors’ expectations and a stagnation of public funding for green R&D after the financial crisis. The Paris Agreement does not appear to have reversed the negative trend in low-carbon patenting observed since 2013. Innovation is still highly concentrated, with Germany, Japan, and the US accounting for more than half of global inventions, and the top 10 countries for around 90%. This concentration has further intensified over the last decade. Except for China, emerging economies have not caught up and remain less specialised in low-carbon technologies than the world average. This underscores the need for more technology transfers to developing and emerging economies, where most of the future CO2-emissions increases are set to occur. Existing transfer mechanisms, such as the UN Technology Transfer Mechanism and the Clean Development Mechanism, appear insufficient given the slow progress of technology transfer.

scholarly journals What are the main determinants of diffusion speed between academic research and industrial application? Evidence from four major clean-energy technologies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedict Probst ◽  
Laura Díaz Anadón ◽  
Andreas Kontoleon
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Diffusion Speed ◽  
Low Carbon Technologies

Abstract Recent evidence suggests a slowdown of economic productivity in major Western and Asian economies. One of the most convincing causes is the slowdown in research productivity in key sectors of the economy, such as low-carbon technologies. The latter trend is particularly worrying as low-carbon technologies play a critical role in keeping global warming well below the 2°C that the Paris Agreement set. We rely on a novel data science method that connects scientific articles with patented technologies. We extract the scientific publications cited in more than 600,000 clean energy technologies (wind, solar, biomass, li-ion) and investigate what determines the diffusion speed between scientific research and patented technologies. We demonstrate that the higher the quality of the scientific article (measured by citations), the lower the distance between scientists and inventors, and the higher the similarity between the content of the scientific article and the patent, the faster the diffusion between research and application. Yet, we also show that while more dissimilar content takes longer to be used in patents, the eventual impact of the patent is greater, possibly because it is more innovative. Our data also reveals that while distance appears to matter for the speed of knowledge diffusion, patents in the four low-carbon technologies on average rely on 81% of foreign sources of science, as scientific knowledge diffuses widely across the world economy. China and the United States play an outsized role as the source of scientific publications used in clean-technology patents globally. Nevertheless, while research is characterised by global spillovers, the application of such knowledge (in a patent) appears to be dominated by national teams, potentially due to greater local spillovers and secrecy issues.

Understanding Indicator Choice for the Assessment of RD&D Financing of Low-Carbon Energy Technologies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Sonnenschein
Keyword(s):  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Additional Research ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Standard Set ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

Rapid decarbonization requires additional research, development, and demonstration of low-carbon energy technologies. Various financing instruments are in place to support this development. They are frequently assessed through indicator-based evaluations. There is no standard set of indicators for this purpose. This study looks at the Nordic countries, which are leading countries with respect to eco-innovation. Different indicators to assess financing instruments are analysed with respect to their acceptance, the ease of monitoring, and their robustness. None of the indicators emerges as clearly superior from the analysis. Indicator choice is subject to trade-offs and leaves room for steering evaluation results in a desired direction. The study concludes by discussing potential policy implications of biases in indicator-based evaluation.

scholarly journals Green Banking Trends: Customer Knowledge and Awareness in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
V Chitra ◽  
R Gokilavani
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Financial Institution ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Private Sector Investment ◽  
Consumer Markets

Global warming is increasing; therefore, Change is the law of nature. The changes like the environmental and climatic conditions, are one of the most complicated issues faced by the growing society. The survival of the fittest contributes to the idea of adaptation to the changes in society. Today’s business is all about being green, and companies use this as a key strategy to expand its market and impact society. Even the top companies like Amazon to apple are moving in a great way towards green. The economic development lies in the palms of the banks being the financial organizations.Green banking means a financial institution, typically public or quasi-public, that uses innovative financing techniques and market development tools in partnership with the private sector to accelerate deployment of clean energy technologies. Green banks use public funds to leverage private investment in clean energy technologies that, despite being commercially viable, have struggled to establish a widespread presence in consumer markets. Green banks seek to reduce energy costs for ratepayers, stimulate private sector investment and economic activity, and expedite the transition to a low-carbon economy. Adoption of green banking practices will not only be useful for the environment but also benefit in greater operational efficiencies, minimum errors and frauds, and cost reductions in banking activities. The present paper aims to highlightIndian initiatives and adoption by various banks towards green banking in India. Further, an attempt has been made to highlight the major benefits, confronting challenges of Green Banking.

The Role of Clean Energy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Romm
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transition ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Carbon Economy

This chapter will focus on the clean energy revolution and the technologies most widely discussed for a transition to a low carbon economy. It will explore the scale of the energy transition needed to explain why some energy technologies are considered likely to be major...

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