development objectives. This can mean using renewable energy or transforming
current equipment or technologies into something that is cleaner and more climateresilient. This is reflected in the comprehensive evaluations: the introduction of
technology scores high in the support provided by the organisations evaluated.
Since 1991, the GEF has been facilitating technology transfer to support developing countries through know-how, goods and services, equipment, as well as
organizational and managerial procedures. The GEF has invested around US$250
million annually
8 in, among others, energy efficiency, renewable energy, emerging,
low carbon and energy generating technologies and sustainable urban transport.
In July 2008, World Bank Executive Directors approved the establishment of the
Clean Technology Fund (CTF), under the Climate Investment Funds (CIF). CTF is
a US$5.6 billion fund that empowers the transformation in middle income and
developing countries by providing resources to scale up the demonstration, deployment and transfer of low carbon technologies with significant potential for longterm greenhouse gas (GHG) emission savings.
9 Although implementation is still at
its early stages, CTF investment plans, if successful, would boost renewable energy
generation capacity or reduce national power consumption by 1–8 %. CTF funding
for concentrated solar power, if successful, could boost total global capacity by
more than 40 %.
In 2012, with financing from the GEF and in collaboration with the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Asian Development Bank
established the Climate Technology Finance Center (CTFC). The Center is
designed to promote transfer of and investment in climate technologies and to
help mainstream climate technology considerations in development planning.
Since inception, the Center has provided lessons on climate change initiatives to
other multilateral development banks (MDBs) (ADB 2014).
While other organisations may not have dedicated instruments for technology
transfer, they show a similar emphasis on innovation and introduction of technologies, especially in collaboration with the private sector. Evaluative evidence in the
seven comprehensive evaluations focuses on the following issues.
Technologies That Work Best Tend to Be Already Tested Elsewhere A lot of
technology transfer has been successful precisely because it was focused on well
proven technologies. Replication was typically taken on by the private sector as a
result of evidence showing that a technology was both cost-effective and profitable.
Sound monitoring that demonstrates the benefits of a technology becomes even
more important to its broader adoption (GEF/IEO 2014, p. 54). CTFC experience
showed that many country governments do not give high priority to the introduction
of relatively high-cost climate change risk reduction technologies. As a result,
CTFC undertook a phased approach whereby it is required to first demonstrate
8 Global Environment Facility (2016) Technology Transfer for Climate Change. https://www.
thegef.org/gef/technology_transfer. Accessed 20 April 2016.
9 Climate Investment Funds (2016) Clean Technology Fund. https://www-cif.
climateinvestmentfunds.org/fund/clean-technology-fund. Accessed 20 April 2016.
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current equipment or technologies into something that is cleaner and more climateresilient. This is reflected in the comprehensive evaluations: the introduction of
technology scores high in the support provided by the organisations evaluated.
Since 1991, the GEF has been facilitating technology transfer to support developing countries through know-how, goods and services, equipment, as well as
organizational and managerial procedures. The GEF has invested around US$250
million annually
8 in, among others, energy efficiency, renewable energy, emerging,
low carbon and energy generating technologies and sustainable urban transport.
In July 2008, World Bank Executive Directors approved the establishment of the
Clean Technology Fund (CTF), under the Climate Investment Funds (CIF). CTF is
a US$5.6 billion fund that empowers the transformation in middle income and
developing countries by providing resources to scale up the demonstration, deployment and transfer of low carbon technologies with significant potential for longterm greenhouse gas (GHG) emission savings.
9 Although implementation is still at
its early stages, CTF investment plans, if successful, would boost renewable energy
generation capacity or reduce national power consumption by 1–8 %. CTF funding
for concentrated solar power, if successful, could boost total global capacity by
more than 40 %.
In 2012, with financing from the GEF and in collaboration with the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Asian Development Bank
established the Climate Technology Finance Center (CTFC). The Center is
designed to promote transfer of and investment in climate technologies and to
help mainstream climate technology considerations in development planning.
Since inception, the Center has provided lessons on climate change initiatives to
other multilateral development banks (MDBs) (ADB 2014).
While other organisations may not have dedicated instruments for technology
transfer, they show a similar emphasis on innovation and introduction of technologies, especially in collaboration with the private sector. Evaluative evidence in the
seven comprehensive evaluations focuses on the following issues.
Technologies That Work Best Tend to Be Already Tested Elsewhere A lot of
technology transfer has been successful precisely because it was focused on well
proven technologies. Replication was typically taken on by the private sector as a
result of evidence showing that a technology was both cost-effective and profitable.
Sound monitoring that demonstrates the benefits of a technology becomes even
more important to its broader adoption (GEF/IEO 2014, p. 54). CTFC experience
showed that many country governments do not give high priority to the introduction
of relatively high-cost climate change risk reduction technologies. As a result,
CTFC undertook a phased approach whereby it is required to first demonstrate
8 Global Environment Facility (2016) Technology Transfer for Climate Change. https://www.
thegef.org/gef/technology_transfer. Accessed 20 April 2016.
9 Climate Investment Funds (2016) Clean Technology Fund. https://www-cif.
climateinvestmentfunds.org/fund/clean-technology-fund. Accessed 20 April 2016.
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