Many disciplines are relevant to combating climate change. This challenging book draws together legal, regulatory, geographic, industrial and professional perspectives and explores the role of technologies in addressing climate change through mitigation, adaptation and information gathering. It explores some key issues. Is intellectual property part of the solution, an obstacle to change or peripheral? Are there more important questions? Do they receive the attention they deserve? And from whom? This innovative book will play an important role in stimulating holistic discussion and action on an issue of key importance to society. Environmental Technologies, Intellectual Property and Climate Change will appeal strongly to scholars researching IP and climate change, as well as to a range of professionals including venture capitalists, practising lawyers working in IP, environmental and corporate finance law, activists within both climate change and human rights, and policymakers.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword Introduction 1. Low Carbon Futures for All? Strategic Options for Global Availability of Environmental Technologies 2. The Puzzling Persistence of the Intellectual Property Right/Climate Change Relationship 3. Failure is Not an Option: Enhancing the Use of Intellectual Property Tools to Secure Wider and More Equitable Access to Climate Change Technologies 4. Partnership and Sharing: Beyond Mainstream Mechanisms 5. Public–Private Partnerships for Wider and Equitable Access to Climate Technologies 6. Climate Change, Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Rights: A Modest Exercise in Thinking Outside the Box 7. Access to Essential Environmental Technologies and Poor Communities: Why Human Rights Should be Prioritized 8. Achieving Greater Access: A New Role for Established Legal Principles? 9. The ‘New Normal’: Food, Climate Change and Intellectual Property 10. Intellectual Property: Property Rights and the Public Interest 11. A View from Inside the Renewable Energy Industry 12. A Private Institutional Investment Perspective Index