Policy Brief and Climate Conference event Addressing Low-Carbon Energy Technologies

Alexandra Mallett, Assistant professor, SPPA, and colleagues from Sussex Energy Group, SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research, at the University of Sussex, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research just released a policy brief entitled Low Carbon Technology Transfer: Lessons from India and China.

Drawing on case study research in China and India, the brief reviews experiences with a number of low carbon energy technologies including LED lighting, solar PV and more efficient coal-fired power plants to identify key lessons for advancing technology transfer, an essential facet of global action to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

To learn more, click here for the entire brief.

She will present this research and her PhD research, which examined the effect of trade and competitiveness policies on the uptake of renewable energy technologies using evidence from urban Latin America, at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development’s trade and climate symposium entitled: The Role of Trade and Markets in Addressing Climate Change and Sustainable Development. The symposium takes place December 8th-9th, 2010, on the sidelines of the 16^th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Cancun, Mexico.

For more details on the symposium, please  click on the logo to the right.