The Tech Transfer Trap

If the Obama administration hopes to coax China to take action on global warming — and if the administration wants to give the U.N. climate negotiations a chance of success — it will need to solve the thorny problem of technology transfer. If it does so, however, it may face a quarrel with the clean-tech industry, one of its closest allies in the business community.

In the U.N. climate talks last month in Poznan, Poland, technology transfer emerged as one of the key stumbling blocks. China demanded that the United States and Europe agree to a strategy of transferring to developing nations a wide variety of energy-saving and emissions-reducing technologies to developing nations.

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O Presidente do Observatório da China, Dr. Rui Lourido (simultaneamente Coordenador Cultural da UCCLA) participou na preparação do China-Europa Fórum (que se realizou em 7-14 de Julho de 2010, em Macau e Hong-Kong). Essa reunião preparatória decorreu em Frankfurt, em finais de Dezembro de 2008. Foi convidado a falar sobre o papel do Observatório da China e da UCCLA e da situação de Macau como ponte de relacionamento multissecular entre a Europa e a China. Nele propôs e foi aprovado, a realização de um workshop, a realizar em Lisboa, enquadrado no futuro Fórum.

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The President of the Observatory for China, Dr. Rui Lourido (simultaneously UCCLA Cultural Coordinator) participated in the preparation of the China-Europe Forum (held on 7-14 July 2010, in Macau and Hong Kong). This preparatory meeting was held in Frankfurt, in late December 2008. He was invited to speak on the role of the Observatory for China and UCCLA and the situation of Macao as a bridge between the centuries-old relationship of Europe and China. In it he proposed and was approved on a workshop to be held in Lisbon, included in future Forum.

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