The secretariat of the UN Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) has issued the call following a request by governments at the UN climate change conference in Durban last year to launch the process of selecting a suitable host for the CTC.
The centre will take forward the Technology Mechanism – set up at the UN conference in Cancun in 2010 – which is intended to promote the development and knowledge-transfer of “climate-sound” technologies that will eventually be put into practice.
UNFCCC executive secretary, Christiana Figueres, said: “At the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, governments gave themselves a heavy workload for 2012, and the call for proposals is the first big follow-on step from that meeting. It is also a major step towards delivering real and tangible transfer of technologies and know-how to developing countries,”
The CTC and its network will help developing countries to select technologies and set up resulting projects and strategies. It intends to achieve this through collaboration between governments, international organisations, the research community, academia and the private sector.
The secretariat has asked interested organisations, including consortia, to submit their proposals for hosting the CTC by March 16 with a view to it becoming fully operational in 2012. These proposals will then be assessed by an evaluation panel - comprising six members of the Technology Executive Committee – which will recommend a shortlist, before the successful host is approved at the next UN Climate Change Conference in Qatar at the end of 2012.
UNFCCC press release, 19 January 2012
Read the call for proposals here.
