Transfer of Environmental Technologies

Advanced technological capability is indispensable for coping with environmental issues and problems. Technological capability is the result of both individual efforts and close interaction among state, industry, financing institutions, and research and education within every society. Close interaction and agreement upon common targets are the preconditions for learning processes, the key element in technological development.

In industrialised countries, technological capacity in all four sectors is high, and after the introduction of appropriate incentives via regulatory and other instruments a market for environmental technology evolved. In developing countries, technological capability is not yet sufficiently developed and thus cannot stimulate processes such as the identification of domestic needs for environmental technology.

However, successful transfer of environmental technologies depends on the capability of our partner countries to specify their particular demand, and to further develop appropriate technologies on their own. To this end, the pilot project "Strengthening Environmental Technological Capability in Developing Countries (ETC)" was created. It seeks to strengthen environmental technology capability by exploring new ways to exchange information between, on the one hand, actors from all sectors involved (state, industry, financing institutions, research and development) in partner countries, and, on the other hand, cooperation partners from the private sector in Germany. You will find more on this project and its approach here.

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