Africa: Tech Transfer 'More Successful Than Rhetoric Suggests'

22 September 2014

Bogotá — As negotiators gather for the UN Climate Summit 2014 in New York tomorrow, researchers tell SciDev.Net that technology transfer for climate change adaptation in developing countries is much more successful than the predominantly pessimistic rhetoric about it would suggest.

But they caution that a recent analysis of technology transfer projects across the world shows more attention should be paid to local political and social conditions - to secure local 'buy-in' for an idea - when rolling out such technologies.

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