Project title: Technology Needs Assessments in Asia for Climate Change Mitigation
Objectives:
- To identify and prioritize technologies that can contribute to climate change mitigation goals of the participating countries through country-driven participatory processes, to help them in meeting their national sustainable development goals and priorities;
- To identify barriers hindering the acquisition, deployment, and diffusion of prioritized technologies; and
- To develop Technology Action Plans (TAP) specifying activities and enabling frameworks to overcome the barriers and facilitate the transfer, adoption, and diffusion of selected technologies in the participating countries.
Sub-thematic area: Greenhouse gas mitigation
Project PI: Prof. S. Kumar, Dr. P. Abdul Salam, Dr Rajendra P. Shrestha, Dr. Charles O.P. Marpaung
Sponsor: UNEP Riso Centre/GEF
Location of the action: Azherbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lao PDR, Indonesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
Starting date: 01/07/2010
Project status: In progress
Project website: http://www.sdcc.ait.asia/tna-mitigation/
