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

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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.

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    http://go.worldbank.org/QUSDA36Q51. Accessed 26 September 2011.

  2. 2.

    NIMBY stands for not in my backyard.

  3. 3.

    Concentrating solar power (CSP) systems concentrate the energy from the sun for electricity production. This is done by heating a fluid which is then used to raise steam for a conventional turbine for on- and off-grid electricity provision. These systems can also provide heat, either at high temperatures directly for chemical reactions, e.g., chemical processing, or as a by-product for desalination plants or cooling systems, depending on requirements.

  4. 4.

    Biomass gasification household stoves work by a high-temperature conversion of biomass in a restricted oxygen environment to a mixture of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane. The hydrogen and methane are then burned without emitting pollutants. The technology can be applied in households, institutions (such as schools) and industries where it is used for boiler heating.

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    A more detailed table with other literature sources are given in the TNA  handbook (UNDP 2010). ENTTRANS  (2008) also identified barriers that are country specific and technology specific.

  6. 6.

    As explained in Chap. 1, the terms low-carbon and low-emission development strategies are used interchangeably in literature sources. In this book, we use LEDS.

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van der Gaast, W., Begg, K. (2012). Challenge 3: Creating Low-Emission and Climate‐Resilient Strategies to Accelerate Innovation for Sustainable Development. In: Challenges and Solutions for Climate Change. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-399-2_3

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