Intellectual Property and Clean Energy: The Paris Agreement and Climate Justice

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This collection considers the future of climate innovation after the Paris Agreement. It analyses the debate over intellectual property and climate change in a range of forums – including the climate talks, the World Trade Organization, and the World Intellectual Property Organization, as well as multilateral institutions dealing with food, health, and biodiversity. The book investigates the critical role patent law plays in providing incentives for renewable energy and access to critical inventions for the greater public good, as well as plant breeders’ rights and their impact upon food security and climate change. Also considered is how access to genetic resources raises questions about biodiversity and climate change. This collection also explores the significant impact of trademark law in terms of green trademarks, eco labels, and greenwashing. The key role played by copyright law in respect of access to environmental information is also considered. The book also looks at deadlocks in the debate over intellectual property and climate change, and provides theoretical, policy, and practical solutions to overcome such impasses. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Introduction: The Road to Paris: Intellectual Property, Human Rights, and Climate Justice (Matthew Rimmer)....Pages 1-30 Front Matter ....Pages 31-31 The Paris Agreement: Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, and Climate Change (Matthew Rimmer)....Pages 33-67 Transparency in Climate Finance After Paris: Towards a More Effective Climate Governance Framework (Felicity Deane, Evan Hamman)....Pages 69-92 The Paris Agreement: Development, the North-South Divide and Human Rights (Anna Huggins, Bridget Lewis)....Pages 93-113 Climate Change and Human Rights: Intellectual Property Challenges and Opportunities (Alexandra Phelan)....Pages 115-148 Front Matter ....Pages 149-149 Intergenerational Justice: A Framework for Addressing Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change (Heather Ann Forrest, Peter Lawrence)....Pages 151-175 Management of Intellectual Property in Australia’s Clean Technology Sector: Challenges and Opportunities in an Uncertain Regulatory Environment (Kane Wishart)....Pages 177-206 Intellectual Property, Climate Change and Technology Transfer in South Asia (Kanchana Kariyawasam, Matthew Tsai)....Pages 207-234 Intellectual Ventures: Patent Law, Climate Change, and Geoengineering (Matthew Rimmer)....Pages 235-271 Front Matter ....Pages 273-273 Trademark Goodwill and Green Global Value Networks (Margaret Chon)....Pages 275-299 This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Greenwashing: An Assessment of the American Petroleum Institute’s Power Past Impossible Campaign (Kim Sheehan)....Pages 301-321 The Power of Visual Appeal: Designs Law and Clean Energy (Maree Sainsbury)....Pages 323-340 Key Change: The Role of the Creative Industries in Climate Change Action (Tim Hollo)....Pages 341-372 Front Matter ....Pages 373-373 Environmental Sousveillance, Citizen Science and Smart Grids (Bruce Baer Arnold)....Pages 375-398 Protecting and Promoting Clean Energy Innovation Through the Trade Secrets Regime: Issues and Implications (Darshana Sumanadasa)....Pages 399-424 Front Matter ....Pages 425-425 Energy Democracy, Renewables and the Paris Agreement (Angela Daly, Caitlin Archbold)....Pages 427-447 Climate Change and Open Data: An Information Environmentalism Perspective (Robert Cunningham)....Pages 449-472 Open Government Data in an Age of Growing Hostility Towards Science (Bernadette Hyland-Wood)....Pages 473-514 Elon Musk’s Open Innovation: Tesla, Intellectual Property, and Climate Change (Matthew Rimmer)....Pages 515-551 Front Matter ....Pages 553-553 Path-Breaking or History-Repeating? Analysing the Paris Agreement’s Research and Development Paradigm for Climate-Smart Agriculture (Hope Johnson)....Pages 555-584 Conserving Genetic Resources, Access and Benefit-Sharing, Intellectual Property and Climate Change (Charles Lawson)....Pages 585-614 Benefit Sharing Under the REDD+ Mechanism: Implications for Women (Rowena Maguire)....Pages 615-638 Northern Exposure: Alaska, Climate Change, Indigenous Rights, and Atmospheric Trust Litigation (Matthew Rimmer)....Pages 639-686