Implementation Activities

The CTI facilitates technology implementation activities identified during the technology needs assessment process through a variety of actions, including:

• Identifying priority clean energy technology sectors in partnership with developing countries based on outcomes from the technology needs assessment process; 
• Implementing targeted activities in selected priority sectors to foster market development and clean energy technology transfer; 
• Evaluating activities, and disseminating lessons learned, to inform market development and country activities in other regions and sectors; and, 
• Developing a strategy for eliminating any institutional, informational or other barriers to establishing the necessary enabling environment for effective and lasting technology transfer.

The CTI has taken a leadership role in exploring innovative options to finance technology transfer because it had become clear that there was not enough public funding to fully address the technology needs of developing and transition countries, thus necessitating the engagement of the private sector.  In 2006, the CTI initiated a pilot program called Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) in cooperation with the UNFCCC Expert Group on Technology Transfer (EGTT) and supported by a number of private sector companies active in the financing of clean energy / renewable energy (CE / RE) projects to broaden access to financing for climate friendly and technology transfer projects.  Its ultimate goal is to get more CE / RE projects financed and thereby to accelerate technology transfer under the UNFCCC.

PFAN was established to bridge the gaps, which were identified to exist, between investors, financiers and available sources of finance and project developers - to help the parties speak the same language and thereby develop and produce financially viable, bankable project and financing proposals. To achieve these aims PFAN seeks to identify projects that may be suitable for private sector finance at an early stage and then acts as a project financing coaching, consultancy and matchmaking service to guide such projects to bankability and financial close.


[For further information of Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN)]