The Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) organised an International Conference on Innovation, Technology Transfer and Cooperation for Addressing Climate Change on 6 December 2022 in Bangkok and online.
This international conference was organized to explore and learn from good practices in scaling up innovative technologies on renewable energy, low carbon transport and disaster risk reduction including 4IR technologies for building sustainable cities. It envisages to enhance knowledge on enabling policies and mechanisms to accelerate innovations for climate change mitigation and adaptation in cities.
Over 90 participants from Government officials, city administrators, representatives of international organizations, R&D institutions and private sector, and other relevant stakeholders involved in urban governance, innovations and technologies related to climate change mitigation and adaptation participated in the conference.