Technological diffusion is recognized as a key pillar of climate change mitigation in environmental agreements.
By 2022, two billion people will be living in informal settlements according to the United Nations.
Moving towards low-carbon, high-efficiency energy systems, mitigating climate change, securing energy supplies, and resolving the imbalance of payments caused by energy imports, are impending problems that nations worldwide are striving hard to resolve.
In the wake of the Copenhagen Accord in 2009 and amid frustration with the slow pace of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks, a number of bilateral and plurilateral efforts and technology initiatives has been launched to deal with international climate policy.
The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these processes in the coming decades.