CLIMTECH Technology and Climate Change Programme

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CLIMTECH - Technology and Climate Change Programme
The programme aims to support the mitigation of
climatechange by contributing to technological
choices, research,development, commercialisation
and development.

• Programme duration 1999-2002
• Programme volume over 4 million euros,
• of which Tekes funding is 1 million euros
• Programme Manager Research ProfessorIlkka
  Savolainen, VTT Prosessit
• Further informationwww.tekes.fi/english/programm
  es/climtech

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Possibilities
Reasons - why?

• The demand for new technologies will
  growvigorously due to the restriction of
  green-house gas emissions
• Finland already has high-grade energytechnology,
  such as fluidised bed combustion(biomass fuels),
  gasification of waste, dieselengines etc.
• Export possibilities are expected to
  growsubstantially
• New Finnish technology can thus be used toreduce
  greenhouse gas emissions not only inFinland but
  all over the world

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The objective

• The objective of the programme is to

• Support mitigation of climate change
• Attain the national climate changemitigation
  objectives
• By contributing to technologicalchoices,
  research, development,commercialisation and
  implementation
• The time scale for the technologies thatare
  being studied extends to about 2030

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Projects

• The CLIMTECH projects (28) have beendivided into
  six subject fields
• 1. Renewable energy sources and distributed
  energy production (5)
• 2. Energy efficiency and industry (6)
• 3. Non-CO2 greenhouse gases (2)
• 4. Capture and utilisation of CO2 (2)
• 5. Models and systems (10)
• 6. Commercialisation (3)
• 8 companies and 7 research institutescarry out
  research work within theCLIMTECH projects.
  Additionally,several companies participate
  infinancing and/or in the work of theexecutive
  group of the research projects

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Results

• The results of the CLIMTECH programme
  arepublished in many different ways because
  ofthe communicative role of the programme
• Project reports (mainly in Finnish with
  Englishabstracts, some reports in English
  available at www.climtech.vtt.fi)
• Printed brochures on the results of
  individualprojects (also in English, pdf
  documents,available at www.climtech.vtt.fi)
• Technical final report on the programme (in
  English)
• CLIMTECH book in Finnish
• Printed English summary of the CLIMTECH
  book(about 30 pages)
• The final reports on the programme will
  becompleted by the final seminar of the
  CLIMTECHprogramme (February 2003)

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Summary

• The task of the CLIMTECH programme is to helpto
  identify the most significant technologicaldevelo
  pment fields
• Companies can use the results of the
  CLIMTECHprogramme when selecting long term
  strategiesfor technology development in domestic
  andexport markets

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