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About the Book The commitment under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to promote transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies in developing countries has remained largely unrealized. The Belém Technology Implementation Programme (BTIP) decision adopted at the UN climate conference in 2025 offers an opportunity to redress this gap, as it constitutes the most significant mandate in recent years to advance access to these technologies. This paper explores how the BTIP can best be put into effect by the Technology Executive Committee (TEC) and the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) – the component bodies of the UNFCCC's Technology Mechanism – in both their individual and joint work. Implementation must be rooted in developing countries' own technology priorities, be backed by financial and technical support, and address systemic barriers to technology transfer such as trade and intellectual property restrictions. It will also require a reorientation of the TEC and the CTCN from their current advisory, process-centred role to one aimed at delivering concrete outcomes in the form of actual technology deployment in the developing countries. VICENTE PAOLO B. YU III is a Senior Legal Adviser of the Third World Network, Associate Fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Warwick. Contents Executive Summary 1. Context and Framing 2. Incorporating BTIP Implementation into TEC-CTCN Work Programming 3. Strengthening TEC-CTCN External Partnerships in Support of BTIP Implementation 4. Enhancing the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework of the Technology Mechanism to Support BTIP Implementation 5. Complementarity Between TEC/CTCN Joint Work and Direct BTIP Implementation 6. Conclusion
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