Climate change innovation in the aftermath of the Paris Agreement: Exploring finance, technology, and capacity-building responses

The 2015 Paris Agreement is clear: significant climate change action will require innovation and a number of different responses, touching on finance, technology, and capacity-building. This will likely include the deployment of new tools, ranging from new models in education and the support of knowledge transfer to novel financing and policy frameworks. As we approach nearly a decade since this landmark agreement was signed, the proposed research aims to examine a models linked to each of these three broad themes (finance, technology, and capacity-building) that may be useful to dealing with the climate problem, including using augmented reality, open knowledge bases, and emerging finance ecosystems. Research products, ideally published in peer-reviewed journals and/or white papers, will examine each of these topics. Empirical analysis of the mission of a major project of the host – developing the world’s first open engineering encyclopedia for clean energy innovation – will be provided.

Faculty Supervisor:

Kevin Hanna

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Partner:

Neolace

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Green/Alternative Energy; Clean Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

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