Climate change is the most pressing challenge of our time.
Addressing it requires an unprecedented mobilisation of
human and financial resources to alter our patterns of
production, consumption and energy use. The large-scale
development and diffusion of technologies is the key to
making such a transition possible.
Enhancing technology transfer has been a key pillar of the
global climate change regime since the inception of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) in 1992. The current climate change negotiations
recognise the need to strengthen this pillar by, among
other things, the establishment of a technology mechanism
to accelerate technology development and transfer.
In this context, the role of intellectual property rights in
the development of climate change mitigation and adaptation
technologies, and especially their transfer to developing
countries, has emerged as a particularly contentious
issue. Despite repeated calls for reliable and continuously
updated information about climate change technologies and
patents, this vigorous debate has been marked by a general
lack of impartial data and evidence that would enable
policy-makers to make informed choices.
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