Despite commitments regarding the “Development and Transfer of Technology” under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change set forth fifteen years ago, developed countries have failed to comply.
How to construct mechanisms (institutional, financial, managerial, etc.) that would permit an efficient, effective, and sustainable “Development and Transfer of Technology” toward developing countries? How to get past barriers regarding the enforcement of intellectual and other forms of property? What means are necessary for reasserting the specific capacities and technologies of developing countries? Why does Copenhagen fail to represent advances in this area?
The objective of this group is to develop a proposal for guaranteeing the “Development and Transfer of Technology” toward developing countries as established under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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March 3, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Frans C. Verhagen, M.Div., M.I.A. Ph.D.
I am developing an alternative carbon reduction methodology to cap-and-trade, using the Fee & Dividend approach as presented in Storms of my Grandchildren by James Hansen and adding the dimension of a carbon-based monetary system. This Tierra Fee & Dividend system is described at the above website and also in write-ups in CMPCC working groups # 8, 12 and 16. The Bolivian Mission at the UN, particularly Councilor Carla Esposito Guevara is familiar with my work. I am suggesting to all working groups that they recommend the establishment of a UN Commission on Monetary Transformation and the Climate Crisis to evaluate and expand the Tierra Fee & Dividend system.
In terms of technology transfer the Tierra Fee & Dividend system would free up the millions of reserve funds that developing countries now are forced to have, mostly by lending to the USA at the ridiculous rate of .5%. Those millions could be spent for technology transfer between South and South and between North and South. In phase 2 the Tierra currency would become a world currency and special allocations of those Tierras could be made to all countries based upon their adult population. Those special allocations could also be used for purchases of appropriate mitigation and adaptation technologies, thus boosting global employment in both North and South.