Trade and Investment Division
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)



Regional Cooperative Policy Mechanism for the Transfer, Financing and
Management of Environmentally Sound Technology (ST/ESCAP/2055)
CONTENTS

SECTION ONE
Conceptual Framework for a Regional Cooperative Policy
Mechanism (RCPM) to Promote the Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technology

Introduction
Target Areas for the RCPM
Operationalizing the RCPM
Conclusion and Recommendations

SECTION TWO
Selected Papers on Issues Related to the Transfer of Environmentally
Sound Technology

Promotion and Development of Environmentally
Sound Indigenous Technologies
P. Khanna

United States-Asia Environmental Partnership
Dennis Zvinakis

Promotion of Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs)
Li Wenhua

SECTION THREE
Analysis of a Survey on the Impact and Implications of Chapter 34
(Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technology, Cooperation and
Capacity-Building) of Agenda 21 on the ESCAP Region

Introduction
Profile of Respondents
Selection of Environmentally Sound Technologies
Import of Environmentally Sound technologies by
Developing Countries
Export of Environmentally Sound Technologies
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Last updated: 26 April 2001