The Structural Power Of The United States

Environmentally sound technology(EST) is the key technology to mitigate and adapt to global climate change in nowadays global climate governance, so that the control of proprietary right and transfer channel of EST would help to create the structural power from knowledge structure. The developed industrial countries have possessed a large amount of EST, but they have to control the technology transfer channel to use their structural power to fullest.The negotiation on development and transfer of technology under The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was regarded as the key process of controlling the transfer channel of EST by the developed industrial countries, in which the core part contained putting private sector as the main sector of technology transfer compared with public sector and force the developing countries to construct the enabling environment towards marketization of technology transfer. Occupied a large number of EST, the The United States dominated the negotiation on development and transfer of technology gradually. The United States tried its best to establish the main body states of private sector in technology transfer, and facilitated the transformation of transfer channel from "the public EST transfer for compensation" to "the cooperation on government-led EST investment by private sector for profit". Through the case study of the United States leading energy efficiency center program and the Technology Cooperation Agreement Pilot Project (TCAPP), we find that the United State have used its structural power to make developing countries face a limited range of choice on EST transfer affairs.