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Intellectual Property and Climate Change - Inventing Clean Technologies

Author
Rimmer M.
Date
2011
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-093219)
Publisher | Place of publication
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd | Cheltenham, United Kingdom
ISBN
978-1-84844-624-3
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Air & atmosphere, Energy
Keyword
Intellectual property rights/patents Climate change Technology transfer
Abstract

In the wake of the international summits in Copenhagen and Cancún, there is an urgent need to consider the role of intellectual property law in encouraging research, development, and diffusion of clean technologies to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change. This book charts the patent landscapes and legal conflicts emerging in a range of fields of innovation – including renewable forms of energy, such as solar power, wind power, and geothermal energy; as well as biofuels, green chemistry, green vehicles, energy efficiency, and smart grids.

DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9780857935885