First Expert Meeting for 'Obtaining, protecting and using essential environmental technologies'

Description

All experts were asked to consider deliberately value and controversial motion “Technologies which are essential to address climate change should be made available to all’. We were joined in person by: Navraj Singh Ghaleigh, University of Edinburgh; Baskut Tuncak, Center for International Environmental Law; David McGrory, Maclay Murray & Spens; Professor Keith Culver, Econoving International Chair in Generating Eco-Innovation Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines; Associate Professor Kathryn McMahon, University of Warwick; Mervyn Jones, Aquamarine Power; Douglas Taylor, Davidson Chalmers, Edinburgh and Dr Elisa Morgera, University of Edinburgh. Written contributions were provided by Dr Kati Kulovesi Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights University of Helsinki; Dr Suzanne Kingston, University College Dublin; and Anna Davies, Trinity College, Dublin. Contributions by telephone were made by Jon Santamauro, Sidley Austin LLP,USA; and Associate Professor Estelle Derclaye, University of Nottingham. Constructive and challenging discussions took place regarding the importance of intellectual property (“IP”) as encouraging or hindering the development of new technologies and their transfer; the impact of obligations imposed by international treaties addressing climate change, IP, world trade, and human rights; management and economic studies regarding climate change, its impact and possible responses to it; challenges of geography in developing and developed, urban and rural areas (from the development of stoves in Darfur to reduce the need for travel to get wood in a war zone to transport and heating in cities in France); the interests of funders in start up companies working in the renewable energy sector; the adequacy of existing regulatory frameworks in respect of IP, tax, incentives and planning; and the contribution of competition law, regulation and new forms of collaboration and sharing.

Period	Jun 2010
Event type	Seminar
Location	Edinburgh, United KingdomShow on map