Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/199439 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 26/2014
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn
Abstract: 
As a global agreement on climate mitigation and absolute emissions reductions remains grid-locked, this paper assesses whether the prospects for international technology cooperation in low-carbon sectors can be improved. It analyses the case of international cooperation on electric vehicle technologies to elaborate on the trade-offs that cooperation such as this inherently attempts to balance– national growth objectives of industrial and technology development versus the global goods benefit of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It focuses on bilateral German-Chinese programmes for electric vehicle development, as well as multilateral platforms on low-carbon technology cooperation related to electric vehicles. Based on insights from these cases studies, this paper ultimately provides policy recommendations to address gaps in international technology cooperation at a bilateral level for ongoing German-Chinese engagement on electric vehicles; and at a multilateral level with a focus on the emerging technology cooperation framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Subjects: 
Regionale + globale + transnationale Governance
Klimawandel
Technologie und Innovation
ISBN: 
978-3-88985-650-0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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