The World's Climate Friendly Technologies -A COP14 Interactive Exhibit

The COP14 Conference opened with a two-week interactive exhibition featuring examples of working climate-friendly technologies around the world that can be converted from local inventions to global solutions. These include innovations that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, clean energy technologies and methods of adapting to the effects of climate change including “a dancing floor which produces electricity, fog catchers from the Cape Verde Islands, a no-waste city with zero CO2 emissions.”

One of the exhibition topics will be the fog catchers (image) used on the Cape Verde Islands - a low-tech solution to the increasingly worldwide problem of providing clean water to populations. These devices (which can be as simple as mats or sheets suspended in the wind) capture moisture which can be piped to adjacent villages where rain and rivers are scarce.