Considerations of Structural Functionalism on Co-Evolution of Environmental Policy and Technology

Recently there is the phenomenon, which an international policy began to affect directly on development and transfer of technology. For example, in the Kyoto Protocol and Kyoto Mechanism for Climate Change, its aiming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction and technology transfer under international political frameworks At the international discussion around Climate Change, there are interaction with between policy and technology both policy and technology influence each other, and keep changing toward same direction for GHG emission reduction. Such kind of interaction is seems to be different phenomenon from policy driven development called as "Command and Control" that we have experience in the past. When there were interactions between policy and technology, it is also necessary to account this interaction to political decision and technology adoption for more effective performance to the future. In this paper, I review the progress as interaction between policy and technology around Kyoto mechanism. And I try to explain these phenomena with structural functionalism and seek the driving force for technology development.