Handbook for conducting technology needs assessment for climate change

This updated handbook provides hands-on guidance for identifying the most effective technology options for poverty reduction and climate change mitigation and adaptation. By drawing on decades of experience and inputs from leading experts and practitioners, it brings novel insights for carrying out needs assessments and creating actionable plans as part of national climate change strategies.

This handbook provides a detailed framework for the development and implementation of technology needs assessments and in particular in the development of technology programmes and strategies to address both mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. It identifies areas where adaptation strategies will be necessary: health and social systems; agriculture; biodiversity and ecosystems; and production systems and physical infrastructure, including the energy grid, and encourages to use assessments already carried out by developed countries.

It seeks to support capacity building and to help with the establishment of the enabling environments for technology transfer.