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Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South

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Fig. 1: Climate technology investment and deployment have increased but much of the Global South has not taken part in the market growth.

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I thank the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy at Stanford University for financial support.

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    Nathan Ratledge

  2. TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

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Ratledge, N. Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South. Nat. Clim. Chang. 12, 771–772 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01458-7

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