Title: The GEF Experience in Financing Technology Transfer: Climate Change Mitigation
1The GEF Experience in Financing Technology
Transfer Climate Change Mitigation
- Zhihong Zhang, Ph.D.
- Sr. Program Manager
- Climate Change Mitigation
2GEF Policies and Strategies on Technology Transfer
- From the pilot phase to GEF-1 (1991-98)
- Demonstrating a wide range of technologies to
reduce GHG emissions, both long-term and
short-term - From GEF-2 to GEF-3 (1998-06)
- Removing barriers to the widespread adoption of
energy efficiency, renewable energy, and urban
transport technologies and practices - GEF-4 (2006-10)
- More focused strategic programs to achieve large
global environmental benefits - ?GEF has been engaged in technology transfer from
its creation. - ? GEFs approach has conformed closely to the
Conventions technology transfer framework.
3GEF-4 Strategic Programs for Climate Change
Mitigation
- Energy-efficient buildings and appliances
- Energy efficiency in the industrial sector
- Market approaches to renewable energy
- Sustainable energy production from biomass
- Innovative systems for sustainable urban
transport - Land use, land-use change, and forestry
4Energy Efficiency Technologies
- Lighting and appliances
- Integrated building designs
- Motors
- Boilers
- CFC-free chillers
- Construction materials
- Industrial energy efficiency technologies
- steel, brickmaking, cement, ceramics, textile,
foundry, rubber, wood, cokemaking, tea
processing, food processing, pulp paper, etc. - District heating systems
- Power generation (rehabilitation), transmission,
and distribution - Cogeneration
5Examples of Industrial Energy Efficiency Projects
- High efficiency industrial boilers
- China, Poland
- Energy-efficient brick kilns
- Bangladesh, China, India, Vietnam
- Industrial co-generation (waste heat recovery for
power generation) - China (cement, cokemaking)
- Steel-rerolling
- India
- Textile, paper pulp, ceramics, food beverage,
foundry, etc. - China, Kenya, Malaysia, Vietnam
6Support for South-South Technology Transfer
- Energy-efficient brick kilns
- Bangladesh, China, India, Vietnam
7Renewable Energy Technologies
- Off-grid PVs
- On-grid PVs
- Solar water heating
- Wind turbines
- Geothermal
- Methane from waste
- Small (mini and micro) hydro
- Biomass co-generation
- Biomass boilers (heat production)
- Biomass gasification for electricity
8Low-GHG-Emitting Energy Technologies
- Biomass integrated gasification combined cycle
generation - Building-integrated photovoltaic power production
- Concentrating solar power production
- Externally-fired combined cycle generation
- Micro-turbine co-generation
- On-grid PV power production
- Stationary fuel-cell power generation
9Sustainable Urban Transport Technologies
- Non-motorized transport
- Bus rapid transit (BRT) systems
- Dedicated bus lanes
- Electric three-wheelers
- Hybrid buses
- Hydrogen-based fuel-cell buses
- Traffic demand management
10Short-Term Response Measures
- Coal-bed methane/coal-mine methane
- Coal-to-gas conversion
- Landfill gas utilization
- LPG substitution
- Natural gas system leakage repair
11GEF-4 Strategic Program on Technology Transfer
- Support for technology needs assessments (TNAs)
- Support for priority pilot projects
- Dissemination of successfully demonstrated
climate-friendly technologies
12Concluding Remarks
- GEF has been a financial mechanism for technology
transfer since it was created 17 years ago. - As financial mechanism of the Convention, GEF has
been one of the largest public funder of
technology transfer for climate change
mitigation. - GEF has provided support for TNAs, NCs, and other
enabling activities to more than 130 developing
countries. - GEF has supported the deployment, diffusion, and
transfer of more than 30 climate change
mitigation technologies in over 50 developing
countries. - GEF will continue to respond to Convention
guidance and scale up its support for technology
transfer in the future.
13Contact Information
- Zhihong Zhang, Ph.D.
- Sr. Program Manager
- Climate Change Mitigation
- Global Environment Facility
- Email zzhang1_at_thegef.org
- Tel (202) 473-9852
- Website www.TheGEF.org