Challenge 3: Creating Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Strategies to Accelerate Innovation for Sustainable Development

Abstract

In this chapter, the complexity of the technology transfer and innovation process is discussed with the need to not only deliver technologies but also facilitate successful adoption through supportive activities to overcome barriers in the system. The next challenge, therefore, is to create the low greenhouse gas emission and climate-resilient strategies and action plans to accelerate innovation for sustainable development on the scale and timescale required for achieving climate and development goals. This chapter describes the TNA process that enables identification of the system blockages or market barriers based on characterising the existing system or market. Stakeholders can then generate the activities for overcoming these weaknesses to form a strategy for innovation of a technology. When taken together with other priority technologies in a sector, the identified innovation activities can form a sector strategy, or when scaling up further, form a national strategy. Action plans for implementation provide the basis for the costs, timing, responsibilities and monitoring, verification and reporting as a basis for funding allocation and management. © Springer-Verlag London 2012.