The traditional North-South paradigm of technology transfer ignores the increasing importance of developing countries as sources of appropriate climate-friendly technologies The expressions of `knowledge’ or `technology transfer’ has traditionally evoked in us a unidirectional trajectory – from advanced, developed to developing countries, which are popularly called the `Global North’ and `Global South.’ This pathway has been drawn since the colonial …

(Originally posted in The Guardian newspaper here) Billions were pledged to help poor nations adapt to global warming but trust is eroding as countries such as the US fail to put up the cash   Flooding in the Marshall Islands in 2008. Photograph: Remi Chauvin/Remi Chauvin     The US and other countries need to pay up their $5.8bn of …