Transcript UNIDO: Technology, Information & the Climate Convention Dr. Peter Pembleton 06/11/2015 Project Outline • • • • • Context UNIDO & technology transfer Technology information UNIDO sources of information Lessons EGM on Technology Information,

UNIDO: Technology, Information & the Climate Convention
Dr. Peter Pembleton
06/11/2015
Project
Outline
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Context
UNIDO & technology transfer
Technology information
UNIDO sources of information
Lessons
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Context
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TNA at which level?
• Generic level
– Is a particular technology environmentally
sustainable/desirable (e.g. incineneration)?
• Project level
– To support technology choice & investment
decisions at plant level (e.g. fuel switching)
Project
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Components of T.Transfer?
– Problem identification
• Determination of current situation, analysis & assessment of
real needs (technology & capacity)
– Access to & provision of technical information
– Comparison of TiPs with BATs/benchmarks
• Project- & facility-level technology analysis & assessment
– Investment promotion
– Matchmaking & negotiation of terms
• Preparations of contracts
– Transfer
• Installation, training, operation, maintenance
– Diffusion
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Technology services?
 Expert assessment
 Technology advice
 Benchmarks &
baselines
 Technology
negotiations
 Policy advice
 Training
 Investment &
funding
 Awareness raising
 Basic information
service & referrals
• through partners such as
Business,
Information
Financial
Management
Government
Process
Academia
NGOs
trade
&
specialists
houses
consultants
technologists
agencies
commercial
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UNIDO & technology
transfer
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Investment and Technology
Promotion
• Enhancement of national policies,
strategies and regulatory frameworks
for investment and technology
promotion
• Building institutional capabilities in
investment and technology promotion
• Promotion of business alliances
• For more:
http://www.unido.org/doc/501745.htmls
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Technology services
• Technology centres
• solar, small hydro, hydrogen
• E&E technology networks
• NCPC, ETAC, INECA, Africa & ASEAN CDM
• Technology negotiations
• BOT (manuals & projects)
• Manual on negotiations
• Model contracts
• Technology assessment
• Baseline methodology, IDENTIFY tool &
database
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Investment services
• 14 Investment Promotion Offices
– identify & broker international partnerships
– preparing projects for financing
• COMFAR
– Computer Model for Feasibility Analysis
and Reporting
– Training
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Energy & Kyoto Protocol
• Industrial energy efficiency & rural
energy
• For more:
http://www.unido.org/doc/501750.htmls
• Climate change and Kyoto Protocol
• For more:
http://www.unido.org/doc/310797.htmls &
http://www.unido.org/knitt/
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Small Business Development
• Development of local business systems
• Business advisory services
• Rural entrepreneurship development
• For more:
http://www.unido.org/doc/501748.htmls
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Technology information
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Requires
• Basic information
– General awareness
– Environmental aspects of technologies
– Management systems
• Referrals
– Where to go; who to ask
• Publications & dissemination
– Hard & soft copy
– Internet
• + Techno-economic information
(next slides)
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Information related to:
• Problem Identification
– Industrial facilities
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Reviews of processes & technologies
Audits (energy use)
Other background data (I/O)
Definition of problems & needs
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Information related to:
• Technology Assessment
– Technologies currently used
– Appropriateness of alternative technologies
considering following impacts
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Technical
Economic
Environmental
Social
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Information related to:
• Investment Promotion
• Project portfolio
• Results of technology assessments
– Dissemination of portfolio
• Investment Promotion Network
– Technology & investment events
– Matchmaking
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Information related to:
• Technology negotiation
– Discussions on
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Official bids & terms of transfer
Legal implications & risk apportionment
Deliverables
Financing
– Preparation of contracts
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Licenses & concessions
Project agreements
Associated agreements
Financial packages
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Information related to:
• Transfer
– Construction (if needed)
– Infrastructure development
• Roads & utilities
– Installation of equipment
– Training of local staff
– Operation
– Maintenance
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Diffusion Mechanisms
• Pilot or demonstration plant
– Plant visits
– Monitoring of results vs. expectations
• Promotion of results through
– National technology centres
– Technical & public media
– Publishing case studies
– Presentations at meetings & conferences
• Replication
– In-plant training
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UNIDO source of
information
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UNIDO information services
• Information generation
– on industry & technology in developing
countries since 1966
– Has always included process optimization
• More efficient use of materials & energy
• Information broker/provider
– data management systems
– data dissemination mechanisms
– support to global & national systems and
networks
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Information generation
• Technical & economic information
– Sectors
• agro-industry; building materials; chemicals;
machinery; metalworking
– Technologies (‘generic’)
– Cleaner production; energy conservation;
benchmarking
• Referral information
• Statistical data
– Yearbook of industrial statistics
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Technology & sectoral
information
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Benchmarks
Water, energy, wastewater, BOD, COD & VOC
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SID
Need & definition of ESID; CP, tools, techniques & information;
role of Government; project design; gender support; exercises.
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NCPC Network
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Industrial development
Abstracts of ca. 11,000 documents on industrial development in
developing countries & microfiches since 1966
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UNIDO Tools
• IDENTIFY
– analysis of CO2 mitigation options
• COMFAR
– models the economic feasibility of
industrial projects
• For more:
http://www.unido.org/doc/50089.htmls
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Identify...
• ...is a software package that helps its
users answer two key questions:
– 1) To what extent can improved industrial
technologies and practices reduce
greenhouse-gas emissions in developing
countries ?
– 2) What other impacts, such as costs,
would result from the introduction of these
technologies?
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For a retrofit option
Benchmark data
(energy efficient
options)
Baseline data
Application of
Identify
Knowledge of
emissions
reduction
options
Project
Energy audit
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Energy efficient alternative
Application of
Identify
Benchmark (estimate)
Project
Efficient
plant
Project
Business as usual (estimate)
Knowledge of
options to avoid
emissions
Baseline plant
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Lessons learnt
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Types of activity
• National data
– collection, management, analysis &
presentation
• Technology information
– inventories/matrices & assessments
• Investment information
– partners, projects and business data
• Reference information
– bibliographic & referral
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Type of system
• Static information services
– centralized (e.g. clearinghouse)
– access to sources
– information provision
• hard copy, data bases, Internet
• Dynamic information services
– translate data & information into knowledge
– data processing/diagnosis/technical
assessment
– local & needs-oriented
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Information or knowledge?
• Information through
– traditional media
• publications
– electronic media
• Internet; data systems
– global & national networks
• Knowledge through
– technical programmes/projects
– application of data & information
– technology assessment
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KNITT
• Knowledge Network for Industrial Technology
Transfer
• CC & CDM information (UNIDO-generated)
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KNITT
• Information types
– Network data
• Centres, experts & projects
– Reference data
• Bilbliographic, meetings, training, information
systems & technologies
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KNITT
• Classification
– Industrial Development Thesaurus
• For data entry
• Thesaurus based search (systematic, KWOC &
alphabetic)
– ISIC codes (6-digit)
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KNITT
• Only contains UNIDO-generated
information & is therefore unique
• Updated as information becomes
available
• All outputs available as attached, fulltext PDF files
• Fully hyperlinked/relational database
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