Stagnation or regeneration: Technology transfer in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Low-Carbon Technology Transfer: From Rhetoric to Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 211-230

  Hedger, Merylyn ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203121481     Document Type: Chapter

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