World Bank.China Technology Needs Assessment

The proposed project development objective is to enhance client capacity to assess climate mitigation and adaptation technology needs and adopt global best practices.

Project Description [from section 3 of PCN]

Component 1: Technical Oversight, Synthesis and Dissemination. This component will support technical oversight and results synthesis of the technology assessments. An important component of this task will be peer review of the assessment methodologies and the sector level results. This component will also provide an outlet for dissemination through a series of workshops coordinating the steering committee and other stakeholders.

Component 2: Technology Assessments at the Sector and Provincial Levels. This component will support technology assessments of identified mitigation and adaptation sectors and several provinces.

Component 3: Capacity Building to Support Climate Technology Networks, TNA, and Technology Transfer. This component will consist of capacity building activities to support one national center, two sectoral centers, and five provincial networks with their own climate technology databases and personnel to serve as knowledge hubs in their respective areas. It will also include capacity building activities to better understand technology transfer mechanisms and the barriers to timely and widespread deployment of global best practice options.

Component 4: Project Management Office. This component will support the establishment and operation of the Project Management Office (PMO).

Project location (if known).

China, nationwide.

Borrower’s Institutional Capacity for Safeguard Policies [from PCN] The Government of China, through the Division of International Policy and Negotiations of NDRC and the national GEF focal point, has requested US$ 5 million from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to contribute to its own TNA. As one of the main counterparts of the Bank at the central level, NDRC is familiar with Bank's safeguard policies and procedures.

Document Date: 2011/11/08.Document Type:Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet.Report Number: AC5386. Volume No:1

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