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Poznan Strategic Program on Technology Transfer

In November 2008, the GEF Council and the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)/ Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) Council approved the Strategic Program on Technology Transfer. That same year, the COP14 welcomed the program, renaming it the Poznan Strategic Program on Technology Transfer, and requested the GEF to develop a long-term implementation plan of the strategic program, to be reported to COP16 (December 2010).

The total funding level for the Poznan Strategic Program is $50 million, which includes $35 million from the GEF Trust Fund (from GEF-4) and $15 million from the SCCF, with the objective of funding three windows within the GEF, in support of technology transfer:

  1. Conduct Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs)
  2. Pilot priority technology projects
  3. Disseminate GEF experience and successfully demonstrated Environmentally Sound Technologies.

 

In addition, the COP14 requested the GEF to consider a long-term implementation of the strategic program on technology transfer. The GEF stands ready to establish and implement a long-term plan, and submitted a report to COP16. The long-term program may entail elements to scale up investment in ESTs in developing countries in accordance with the GEF-5 climate change mitigation strategy, and to enhance technology transfer activities under the Convention.

Such elements are:

  1. Support for Climate Technology Centers and a Climate Technology Network
  2. Piloting Priority Technology Projects to Foster Innovation and Investments
  3. Private Public Partnership for Tech Transfer
  4. Technology Needs Assessment
  5. GEF as a Catalytic Supporting Institution for Tech Transfer

 

The long-term impact of the GEF work will be to slow the growth of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted to the atmosphere from the GEF- recipient countries.

 

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