Prevent Patents Inhibiting Knowledge Diffusion For Green Technology, EU Told
Stringent intellectual property rules could hamper the spread of technology needed to fight climate change, an advisor to European Union policy-makers has warned. The transfer of non-polluting technology from industrialised to developing countries is likely to be one of the key topics addressed when international negotiators meet in Copenhagen this December as part of efforts to fashion a successor to the Kyoto protocol, as the core United Nations accord aimed at addressing global warming is kno