AUTHOR: ______________ TITLE: Member States of WIPO Support Enabling and Enhancing Transfer of Clean Tech DATE: 9/24/2009 03:54:00 PM ----- BODY:
At the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO's) Assembly of Member States, in support of Director General Francis Gurry's opening remarks to the Assembly (see 23 Sept 2009), many nations have also called for accelerated efforts to be made in the cross-border transfer of Environmentally Sustainable Technolgies (ESTs). One such country, playing a key role in climate change negotiations, India, stated: We need to speed up the development and deployment of new green technologies across sectors so that the economies of scale bring the benefit of lower costs. Our national IPR regime and the global IP system need to be seen as facilitating the resolution of the key global challenges of climate change, sustainability and food security. - Opening Statement of the Indian Delegation However, no delegation has, as of yet, provided specific information on how it believes the cross-border transfer of ESTs could be accelerated. Perhaps tangentially related, the Korean IP Office is pushing its initiative on increased Access to Information on Appropriate Technologies (http://www.ipforliving.org/).

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