개도국 기후기술협력 준비도 진단프레임 수립 방향에 대한 연구

Abstract

The government of Republic of Korea expressed its willingness to expand climate technology transfer programs to fulfill its responsibilities under the Paris Agreement. In order to achieve success with such plans, it is crucial to evaluate partner states’ readiness for climate technology cooperation. However, most existing indexes on technology transfer merely focus on the business feasibility of such programs or their climate change response effectiveness. Hence, this study develops the Climate Technology Cooperation Readiness Assessment Framework to measure various determinants of cooperative readiness. Based upon literature reviews, the framework consists of three major themes (enabling environment for climate technology cooperation, accessibility of climate finance, and climate technology cooperation capacity) and nine components. The framework was evaluated by six climate finance experts with more than ten years of experience in climate finance. They found that our framework incorporates technology cooperation capacities of countries and climate finance overlooked by previous indexes. Furthermore, they suggested that the framework be utilized to design strategies to supplement various risks in terms of project implementation, rather than using it to select projects among different partner countries.