Support for
Green Technology
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Climate change challenge, and FOOD AND AGRICULTURE challenges
Climate change
Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges of our time and calls for global solutions. IP can play an important role in spurring the investment and innovation needed to help deliver some of these solutions. MEXICO IP-LAW is committed with these efforts.
Climate change mitigation and adaptation require efforts by all countries
Climate change mitigation and adaptation require efforts by all countries, by both the public and private sectors. The global nature of climate change necessitates constant innovation, deployment and technology transfer on mutually agreed terms at an international level to achieve global adaptation and mitigation goals, which require significant investment. The largest contribution to investment and innovation needs to comes from the private sector.
Intellectual property and related institutional frameworks are critical to any technology development
Intellectual property and related institutional frameworks are critical to any technology development and deployment process and provide the basis for providers of technology solutions to invest in continuous technological improvement for the benefit of society. As such, they are an indispensable foundation for international efforts to implement the Paris Agreement and other climate-related technology activities, and should be maintained and strengthened to support actions to respond to climate change. They can also have an important part to play in finding and matching technology needs with available technologies.
Intellectual property rights play a pivotal role in supporting the transfer and dissemination of technologies
Intellectual property rights play a pivotal role in supporting the transfer and dissemination of technologies. Patents, in particular, provide the primary means for spurring necessary private sector investment in the development and deployment of important technology, particularly clean technology. IP and related instruments also play other relevant roles in technology transfer processes. Patents, provide a good publicly available source of information for identifying technologies and technology holders in order to facilitate and speed up technology transfer. IP rights are thus a prerequisite, not a barrier, to accessing or transferring technology. Stable and effective IP protection is essential to clean technology development and dissemination.
