TY - JOUR
T1 - Technology transfer and cost structure of clean development mechanism projects
T2 - an empirical study of Indian cases
AU - Simon, Nils
AU - Arimura, Toshi H.
AU - Morita, Minoru
AU - Kuriyama, Akihisa
AU - Koakutsu, Kazuhisa
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was financially supported by The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. Toshi Arimura and Minoru Morita are also grateful to the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation for the financial support. Toshi Arimura also appreciates the funding from the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (2-1501) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. The views expressed herein and those of the authors do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies and Springer Japan.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - This research empirically estimates abatement costs under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in India, using project-level data for 830 projects that had been registered as of April 2014. Emphasis lies on assessing the impact of international technology transfer on abatement costs and on testing whether CDM projects in India have experienced a “low-hanging fruits” problem or have benefitted from learning effects. The results suggest that projects that include technology transfer have higher abatement costs. However, this does not appear to be universally applicable when assessing technology transfer by project type. Second, no conclusive evidence is found to support a “low-hanging fruits” problem, both empirically and based on the finding that most Indian projects are conducted unilaterally. On the contrary, some project types showed that abatement costs decrease as more projects are implemented. Finally, results suggest increasing returns to scale as well as economies of time in terms of project duration.
AB - This research empirically estimates abatement costs under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in India, using project-level data for 830 projects that had been registered as of April 2014. Emphasis lies on assessing the impact of international technology transfer on abatement costs and on testing whether CDM projects in India have experienced a “low-hanging fruits” problem or have benefitted from learning effects. The results suggest that projects that include technology transfer have higher abatement costs. However, this does not appear to be universally applicable when assessing technology transfer by project type. Second, no conclusive evidence is found to support a “low-hanging fruits” problem, both empirically and based on the finding that most Indian projects are conducted unilaterally. On the contrary, some project types showed that abatement costs decrease as more projects are implemented. Finally, results suggest increasing returns to scale as well as economies of time in terms of project duration.
KW - Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
KW - Climate changes
KW - Low-hanging fruit problem
KW - Renewable energies
KW - Technology transfer
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U2 - 10.1007/s10018-016-0175-0
DO - 10.1007/s10018-016-0175-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84988985229
SN - 1432-847X
VL - 19
SP - 609
EP - 633
JO - Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
JF - Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
IS - 3
ER -
