New Delhi: Ahead of the Copenhagen Summit
next month, India has made a key move to wrest a climate
change initiative with an offer to set up a global innovation
centre for development and transfer of green technologies.
"India's offer to set up the innovation centre relates
to the issue of governance (of technologies)," Director
General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
Francis Gurry said here.
Explaining the overlap between climate change and the
intellectual property rights, the head of the WIPO said the
transfer and affordability of the patented green technology
would be one of the tricky issues at the Copenhagen Summit.
The summit of global leaders under the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) on December 7
is meant to craft a new international agreement to reduce
greenhouse gases.
One of the proposals likely to be on the table, Gurry
said, would be a common fund to be used for achieving
innovation in the area of green technology. The council of
European ministers has agreed to provide USD 50 billion.
However, the question remains as to how this fund would
be used. Gurry said India's proposal for the innovation centre
could gel with this idea.
The WIPO chief, during his four-day visit here, met Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh
among others.
Bureau Report
First Published: Friday, November 13, 2009, 21:10