International Support for Domestic Action (ISDA): Mechanisms to Facilitate Mitigation in Developing Countries

With 14 project partners, convened by Climate Strategies, and funded by the German institution GTZ and UK Economic and Social Research Council TSEC, the ISDA project pursued workshops and case studies in five developing countries to assess institutional structures and mechanisms that can increase scale, scope and speed of the implementation of policies with climate co-benefits.

Reports from the first phase pursued during 2008 are also online and published in a special issue of Climate Policy. Details of the kick-off workshop International technology and policy cooperation held in February 2009 are available here.

International Support for Domestic Action: Policy Summary. Karsten Neuhoff.                                                    .

Institutional Papers

Indicator Choices and Trade-offs. Karsten Neuhoff, Simone Cooper, Tim Laing, Sarah Lester, and Adam Rysanek.

Mechanisms for International Low-Carbon Technology Cooperation. Morgan Bazilian, Heleen de Coninck, Aaron Cosbey, and Karsten Neuhoff.

Structuring International Financial Support to Support Domestic Action in Developing Countries. Karsten Neuhoff, Sam Fankhauser, Emmanuel Guerin, Jean Charles Hourcade, Helen Jackson, Ranjita Rajan and John Ward.

Case Studies

Promoting Technology Transfer and Deployment for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Ghana. William Gboney.

Large-scale Roll-out of Concentrating Solar Power in South Africa. Max Edkins, Harold Winkler and Andrew Marquard.

Freight Transportation Sector in Brazil. Marica Valle Real and Haroldo Machado-Filho.          

Energy Efficiency in the Low Income Homes of South Africa. Judith Sykes                                                            

Stakeholder Perspective and Indicators for a Climate Co-benefit Policy in the Indian Power Sector. Anoop Singh.

North-South Cooperation and Private Public Partnership: A Case Study of China Wind Power Industry. Xiliang Zhang.

Learning for climate change mitigation finance from development assistance. Frauke Urban and Sara Wolcott.

Intellectual property: Cross-licensing, Patent Pools and Cooperative Standards as a Channel for Climate Change Technology Cooperation. Ilian Iliev and Karsten Neuhoff.

Funding and Sponsors

Both the ISDCP and ISDA projects are convened by Climate Strategies. For full acknowledgements and list of contributors and institutions for this project, please click here.