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Tech transfer, intellectual property debate at COP17

5 Dec 2011

ip-watch.org reports that, as governments meet in Durban to look for ways to progress on halting global climate change, some are suggesting more discussion is needed on the sharing of the technologies that can fight that change, and a middle ground approach has been put forward to get them there.

Intellectual property (IP) rights have been pushed aside in recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meetings.

The Geneva-based International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) has released a new policy brief entitled, "Overcoming the impasse on intellectual property and climate change at the UNFCCC: a way forward," while India has put forward a document that includes proposals on accelerated access to critical mitigation and adaptation technologies and related intellectual property rights.

Technology transfer is a "pillar" of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, according to ICTSD who stresses, in its policy brief, the urgency of establishing the basis for a "reasonable and balanced" discussion about IP and climate change technologies if there is to be effective international action against climate change. According to ip-watch.org, India argues separately that it is "essential" that this week's meeting identify a forum and process to address these issues and find a way to keep them on the agenda in the future.

Read the full article on www.ip-watch.org.