The China-US Relationship on Climate Change, Intellectual Property and CCS: Requiem for a Species?
Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 36/2009
The WIPO Journal, No. 1, pp. 124-131, 2009
9 Pages Posted: 12 Nov 2009
Date Written: November 11, 2009
Abstract
The paper argues that China and the US will have to develop an integrated approach to the climate change, energy and intellectual property regimes if both countries are to respond to the problem of climate change in time. It suggests that probably not enough is being invested in the basic R&D of carbon capture and storage (CCS) for CCS to arrive in time. Both countries need to pay much more attention to developing a renewable energy regime and this means, amongst other things, finding an alternative to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA is too dominated by traditional energy interests. The intellectual property issue should, because of its divisive nature, be kept out of multilateral climate talks and the issues dealt with quietly on a case by case basis.
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