The Bali Action Plan reaffirms the need for enhanced action on technology development and transfer to support action on mitigation and adaptation. It also states clearly that the participation of India and China in future cooperative efforts to reduce GHGs is crucial. In order to respond to this policy need, modelling techniques have to be developed to analyze issues such as: the potential of endogenous technological change in de-coupling economic growth and pollution; the role of technology transfers and spillovers for the diffusion of carbon-free technologies; the environmental and economic efficacy of international technological agreements as opposed to climate agreements; and many others.

The acknowledgement of both these policy and modelling priorities is at the core of European Project ” Technology-Oriented Cooperation and Strategies in India and China: Reinforcing the EU dialogue with Developing Countries on Climate Change Mitigation” (TOCSIN) and of the International Forum on Climate Governance (IFCG), a project of the Climate Impacts and Policy Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC).

The International Forum on Climate Governance aims to spark a debate on initiatives and policies at the sectoral, national, regional and international level, designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to support the adaptation of the economic and environmental systems to the changing climate patterns. The Forum gathers international research groups, climate change policy experts, negotiators, representatives of international and national institutions and environmental NGOS to analyse the political dimension of climate change (https://www.cmcc.it/web/public/IFCG).