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Driving technology transfer

Helping to build the innovative capacity of developing countries is key to setting them on a path to low-carbon development, writes Sonja van Renssen.

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Figure 1: Growth rate of patenting of global climate change mitigation technologies, showing how the Kyoto Protocol accelerated innovation in clean technology.

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van Renssen, S. Driving technology transfer. Nature Clim Change 1, 289–290 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1193

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