Suman Sahai | India has task cut out — to arrange waiver of IPR on green tech at G-20
Deccan ChronicleThe government is compiling a long list of what it wants to take up in the period of its leadership of the G-20. Given the pace of climate change and the havoc it is wreaking, no course correction will be possible unless green technologies already developed by the industrial nations are made available to all countries. Far from coming forth on granting broader access to green technologies, the US is fast-tracking patent applications for climate mitigating technologies. To negotiate a waiver of IPR on green technologies, India needs to invoke existing clauses in international agreements like the UNFCCC which emphasises that, to achieve the goal of keeping global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius this century, green technology will be crucial to help countries achieve this objective. India should use its G-20 presidency to use the flexibilities on technology transfer given in international forums to negotiate the sharing of green technologies for the global good.
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