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Technology

A technological revolution is required if greenhouse gas emissions are to be cut dramatically enough to avoid a climate crisis. There is already a wealth of climate-friendly technology that can be put to use sooner and more widely; many more new inventions will be needed too. It is the GCN's view that governments must be at the heart of the low-carbon technology revolution, driving it with policy and finance.

We recently published Breaking Through on Technology, a study examining the barriers to the development, commercialisation, deployment and 'transfer' of low-carbon technologies and setting out what governments need to do to overcome them. The study's findings emphasise the importance of technology to all GCN member countries, underlining an urgent need to place technology ‘front and centre’ in the international negotiations.

Finance is crucial to the technology narrative. The role for an international agreement is to ensure that there is a supply of money to help new technologies reach a mass market more quickly, especially in the developing world, where access to low-cost finance is limited.
 
Read our report: Breaking Through on Technology.