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

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. Table of Contents Preface The People's Climate March, Flood Wall Street, and the New York Climate Summit Professor Matthew Rimmer, QUT (1) Introduction The Road to Paris: Intellectual Property, Human Rights, and Climate Justice --Professor Matthew Rimmer, QUT (I). International Law (2). The Paris Agreement: Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Climate Change --Professor Matthew Rimmer, QUT (3). Transparency in Climate Finance After Paris: Towards a More Effective Climate Governance Framework --Dr Felicity Deane and Dr Evan Hamman, QUT (4). The Paris Agreement: Development, the North-South Divide and Human Rights --Dr Anna Huggins and Dr Bridget Lewis, QUT (5). Climate Change and Human Rights: Intellectual Property Challenges and Opportunities --Alexandra Phelan, Georgetown Law (II). Patent Law (6). Intergenerational Justice: A Framework for Addressing Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change --Dr Peter Lawrence, University of Tasmania, and Heather Forest (7). Management of Intellectual Property in Australia's Clean Technology Sector: Challenges and Opportunities in an Uncertain Regulatory Environment --Kane Wishart (8). Intellectual Property, Climate Change and Technology Transfer in South Asia Dr Kanchana Kariyawasam, Griffith University, and Matthew Tsai (9). Masters of Disaster: Patent Law, Climate Change, and Geoengineering --Professor Matthew Rimmer, QUT (III). Trademark Law and Related Rights (10). Trademark Goodwill and Green Global Value Networks --Professor Margaret Chon, Seattle University (11). This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Greenwashing: An Assessment of the American Petroleum Institute’s Power Past Impossible Campaign --Professor Kim Sheehan, the University of Oregon (12). The Power of Visual Appeal: Designs Law and Clean Energy --Professor Maree Sainsbury, the University of Canberra (13). Key Change: The role of the creative industries in climate change action --Tim Hollo (IV). Privacy and Trade Secrets (14). Environmental Sousveillance, Citizen Science and Smart Grids --Bruce Arnold, the University of Canberra (15). Promoting and Protecting Clean Energy Innovations Through The Trade Secrets Regime: Issues and Implications --Walakada Appuhamilage Darshana Jeewantha Sumanadasa, QUT (V). Open Innovation (16). Energy Democracy, Renewables and the Paris Agreement --Dr Angela Daly, QUT and Caitlin Archbold, QUT (17). Change Change and Open Data: An Information Environmentalism Perspective --Associate Professor Robert Cunningham, Curtin University (18). Open Government Data in an Age of Growing Hostility Towards Science --Bernadette Hyland-Wood, UQ (19). Elon Musk’s Open Innovation: Tesla, Intellectual Property, and Climate Change --Professor Matthew Rimmer, QUT (VI). Plant Breeders’ Rights, Food Security, Access to Genetic Resources, and Indigenous Knowledge (20). Path-breaking or history-repeating? Analysing the Paris Agreement’s research and development paradigm for climate-smart agriculture --Dr Hope Johnson, QUT (21). Genetic resources, intellectual property and climate change --Professor Charles Lawson, Griffith University (22). Benefit Sharing Under the REDD+ Mechanisms: Implications for Women --Dr Rowena Maguire, QUT (23). Northern Exposure: Climate Change, Indigenous Rights, and Atmospheric Trust Litigation in Alaska --Professor Matthew Rimmer, QU