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Globalizing green industrial policy through technology transfers

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Unless the green technological transition underway in Global North countries is globalized, it will fail to reach its developmental potential. To realize the ambitions of green industrial policies in the Global North, technology transfers to the Global South are a necessary supplement to climate finance initiatives.

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  1. School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

    Benjamin H. Bradlow

  2. Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

    Benjamin H. Bradlow

  3. Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

    Alexandros Kentikelenis

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Bradlow, B.H., Kentikelenis, A. Globalizing green industrial policy through technology transfers. Nat Sustain (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01336-4

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