Summary
Comprehensive mapping of technology taxonomy logics across WEF, IPCC AR6 WG3, IEA, and IRENA. Assesses how each framework organises technologies at sector, domain, and enabling-layer levels. Key finding: all four bodies converge on treating digital/AI technologies as horizontal enabling layers — never standalone peer domains. Six physical resource domains are robustly multi-source; water, health, governance, and community economy are absent or weak in IO frameworks and require eco-village literature grounding. No IO framework addresses village/community scale as a distinct deployment tier.
Key claims
- No IO framework provides a village-scale technology taxonomy; this creates an obligation for Neobiome to construct its own, informed by but not constrained by national-scale frameworks. CR_004
- IPCC AR6 sector logic: Energy supply → AFOLU (food/land) → Buildings → Transport → Industry (waste/circular) → cross-cutting enabling (AI, CDR, circular economy). CR_004
- IEA five technology families: clean electricity generation; end-use electrification; energy efficiency; low-carbon fuels; CCUS/CDR. Energy-centric; water/food/health/governance absent. CR_004
- ⚠ Correction (2026-07-17, primary read → OT_116): IEA Energy Technology Perspectives 2023 contains no “technology families” grouping (“technology families”/“technology family” = 0 occurrences in the 464-pp report); it groups technologies by manufacturing archetype (mass-manufactured / large-scale site-tailored / bulk materials). The “five families” above is the IEA Net Zero by 2050 Roadmap five-pillar framing, mis-attributed to ETP-2023. The claim’s substance (IEA framing is energy-centric; water/food/health/governance absent) is unaffected; only the “ETP-2023 → 5 families” attribution is corrected. Claim +
underlying_sourcesleft as-is per annotate-don’t-rewrite. OT_116
- ⚠ Correction (2026-07-17, primary read → OT_116): IEA Energy Technology Perspectives 2023 contains no “technology families” grouping (“technology families”/“technology family” = 0 occurrences in the 464-pp report); it groups technologies by manufacturing archetype (mass-manufactured / large-scale site-tailored / bulk materials). The “five families” above is the IEA Net Zero by 2050 Roadmap five-pillar framing, mis-attributed to ETP-2023. The claim’s substance (IEA framing is energy-centric; water/food/health/governance absent) is unaffected; only the “ETP-2023 → 5 families” attribution is corrected. Claim +
- IRENA Innovation Landscape organises 80+ solutions across 4 groups: enabling technologies (hardware + AI/IoT); business models; market design; system operation. Enabling technologies explicitly defined as cross-domain horizontal layer. CR_004
- WEF governance taxonomy: AI/ML; blockchain; drones/autonomous; genomics/biotech; IoT; digital currencies. Governance-focused; physical resource domains absent. CR_004
- AI and IoT: IPCC (Ch. 12), IEA (enabling infrastructure sub-category), IRENA (enabling technologies group), WEF (governance domain) — all treat as horizontal layer, never standalone resource domain. CR_004
- Biotechnology: WEF governance domain; IPCC embeds in AFOLU (crop varieties, bioenergy feedstocks, soil microbiome); IEA/IRENA address only as bioenergy feedstock. CR_004
- Advanced manufacturing: IPCC Ch. 11 (industry); IEA TCEP (industry); absent from IRENA. CR_004
Coverage comparison
| Domain | IPCC AR6 | IEA | IRENA | WEF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Food & Agriculture | ✅ (AFOLU) | ❌ | Partial | ❌ |
| Water & Sanitation | Partial (WG2) | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Buildings & Shelter | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Partial |
| Mobility & Transport | ✅ | ✅ | Partial | Partial |
| Waste & Circular | ✅ | ✅ | Partial | ❌ |
| Health technology | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Partial |
| Governance & economy | Partial | ❌ | Partial | ✅ |
| AI/IoT (as layer) | ✅ | Partial | ✅ | ✅ |
| Biotech | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Community/village scale | Partial | Partial | ✅ | Partial |
Implication for EDT framework
The research supports restructuring the project’s 10 EDT domains. See edt_framework.md for decisions taken. Primary structural change: merge D05 (AI/IoT) + D08 (Satellite/Connectivity) into a single enabling meta-layer; split D02 (Food/Water/Circular) into separate domains for Food and Water; consolidate D09 (Biotech) + D10 (Advanced Manufacturing) into a single innovation frontier domain.
Connections
Links to
Sources (1): OT_116
Referenced by
EDT domains (10): D01: Renewable Energy & Storage Systems · D02: Smart Food Systems & Agriculture · D03: Water, Waste & Circular Systems · D04: Sustainable Habitat & Building Technology · D05: Smart Mobility & Electrified Transport · D06: Smart Health & Wellbeing · D07: Digital Governance & Community Economies · D08: Biotechnology & Nature-Based Solutions · D09: Digital Intelligence & Connectivity · D10: Advanced Manufacturing & Digital Fabricat…
Concepts (2): EDT Framework — Emerging & Disruptive Technolo… · IEA ↔ EDT Taxonomy Mapping