Moving climate innovation into the 21st century: emerging lessons from other sectors and options for a new climate innovation initiative
This report analyzes technology innovation models from the agriculture, health, and information and telecommunications sectors. Its case studies range from projects like Human Genome Project, to the rise of the mobile phone industry in developing-world markets, to what can be learned from the Global Fund and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research climate technology. The report explores how these strategies have evolved, especially in developing countries, and how they can be applied to the climate technology sector and concludes that developing countries will be a new source of technology innovation, challenging the conventional wisdom that climate solutions will depend only on massive funding for North-to-South technology transfer.