Are organizations elsewhere in the world studying technologies that could help us address the problem of global climate change?
A. Yes, quite a few. For example: Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) (http://www.rite.or.jp/English/E-home-frame.html) in Japan was founded in 1990 as a “research hub … for the development of innovative environmental technologies and the broadening of the range of CO2 sinks.” GREENTIE, the Greenhouse Gas Technology Information Exchange, (http://www.greentie.org/) an initiative of the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), was established in 1993 “to improve the awareness of, and facilitate the access to, suppliers and experts of `clean technologies’, particularly technologies that help mitigate the emissions of greenhouse gases.” CADDETT (http://www.caddet-re.org/), the IEA/OECD Centre for the Analysis and Dissemination of Demonstrated Energy Technologies, “provides an international information network to help managers, engineers, architects, and researchers find out about the energy-saving
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