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

687 Pages·2018·8.67 MB·English

by  Matthew Rimmer

Editor
Matthew Rimmer
Intellectual
Property and
Clean Energy
The Paris Agreement and Climate Justice
Intellectual Property and Clean Energy
Matthew Rimmer
Editor
Intellectual Property
and Clean Energy
The Paris Agreement and Climate Justice
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Editor
MatthewRimmer
Faculty of Law
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia
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Contents
Preface... .... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... xiii
The People’s Climate March, Flood Wall Street and the New York
Climate Summit .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... xiii
1 Introduction: The Road to Paris: Intellectual Property, Human
Rights, and Climate Justice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Matthew Rimmer
Part I International Law
2 The Paris Agreement: Intellectual Property, Technology
Transfer, and Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Matthew Rimmer
3 Transparency in Climate Finance After Paris: Towards a More
Effective Climate Governance Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Felicity Deane and Evan Hamman
4 The Paris Agreement: Development, the North-South Divide
and Human Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Anna Huggins and Bridget Lewis
5 Climate Change and Human Rights: Intellectual Property
Challenges and Opportunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Alexandra Phelan
Part II Patent Law
6 Intergenerational Justice: A Framework for Addressing
Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Heather Ann Forrest and Peter Lawrence
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7 Management of Intellectual Property in Australia’s Clean
Technology Sector: Challenges and Opportunities in an
Uncertain Regulatory Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Kane Wishart
8 Intellectual Property, Climate Change and Technology Transfer
in South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Kanchana Kariyawasam and Matthew Tsai
9 Intellectual Ventures: Patent Law, Climate Change,
and Geoengineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Matthew Rimmer
Part III Trademark Law and Related Rights
10 Trademark Goodwill and Green Global Value Networks . . . . . . . . 275
Margaret Chon
11 This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Greenwashing: An Assessment
of the American Petroleum Institute’s Power Past Impossible
Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Kim Sheehan
12 The Power of Visual Appeal: Designs Law and Clean
Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Maree Sainsbury
13 Key Change: The Role of the Creative Industries in Climate
Change Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Tim Hollo
Part IV Privacy and Trade Secrets
14 Environmental Sousveillance, Citizen Science and Smart
Grids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Bruce Baer Arnold
15 Protecting and Promoting Clean Energy Innovation Through
the Trade Secrets Regime: Issues and Implications. . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Darshana Sumanadasa
Part V Open Innovation
16 Energy Democracy, Renewables and the Paris Agreement . . . . . . . 427
Angela Daly and Caitlin Archbold
17 Climate Change and Open Data: An Information
Environmentalism Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Robert Cunningham
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18 Open Government Data in an Age of Growing Hostility
Towards Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Bernadette Hyland-Wood
19 Elon Musk’s Open Innovation: Tesla, Intellectual Property,
and Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Matthew Rimmer
Part 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Hope Johnson
21 Conserving Genetic Resources, Access and Benefit-Sharing,
Intellectual Property and Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Charles Lawson
22 Benefit Sharing Under the REDD+ Mechanism: Implications
for Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615
Rowena Maguire
23 Northern Exposure: Alaska, Climate Change, Indigenous
Rights, and Atmospheric Trust Litigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Matthew Rimmer
Contributors
Caitlin Archbold Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane, Australia
Bruce Baer Arnold The University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia
Margaret Chon Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, USA
Robert Cunningham Curtin Law School, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Angela Daly Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,
Australia; Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Felicity Deane Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,
Australia
Heather Ann Forrest Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania,Hobart, Australia
EvanHamman FacultyofLaw,QueenslandUniversityofTechnology,Brisbane,
Australia
Tim Hollo Green Music Australia, Canberra, Australia
Anna Huggins Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,
Australia
Bernadette Hyland-Wood School of Political Science and International Studies,
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Hope Johnson Faculty of Law, School of Law, Queensland University of
Technology, Brisbane, Australia
KanchanaKariyawasam BusinessSchool,GriffithUniversity,Nathan,Brisbane,
Australia
Peter Lawrence Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Charles Lawson Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
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Bridget Lewis Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,
Australia
Rowena Maguire Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane, Australia
Alexandra Phelan Georgetown Law, Washington, DC, USA
MatthewRimmer FacultyofLaw,QueenslandUniversityofTechnology(QUT),
Brisbane, Australia
Maree Sainsbury University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia
Kim Sheehan University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
Darshana Sumanadasa Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane, Australia; Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Matthew Tsai Norton White Lawyers, Sydney, Australia
Kane Wishart New York, USA
Acknowledgements
This research project on Intellectual Property and Clean Energy: The Paris
Agreement and Climate Justice has been a major undertaking.
This book—and my chapters—have been supported by an Australian Research
CouncilFutureFellowshipon‘IntellectualPropertyandClimateChange:Inventing
Clean Technologies’. As part of the project, I undertook fieldwork in Australia,
New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Switzerland, Germany and Scandinavia.
Inparticular,thefinalchapterisbased onfieldwork thatIdidonatmospherictrust
litigationinAlaskaintheUnitedStates.Iamgratefulforthehelpandassistanceof
awiderangeofacademics,expertsandpolicymakersduringthistravel.Ihavealso
been blessed by the contributions of consultants to the project—including Tim
Hollo of Green Music Australia, Alexandra Phelan and Kane Wishart.
TheprojectwasundertakenattheFaculty ofLawattheQueensland University
ofTechnology(QUT).IamthankfulforthesupportandtheleadershipoftheDean
Professor John Humphrey, Head of School Professor Judith McNamara, and
ProfessorBelindaCarpenter.Iamalsogratefulforthecommunityofscholarsatthe
Faculty of Law, including both members of the QUT Intellectual Property and
Innovation Law Research Program and the QUT International Law and Global
Governance Research Program—in particular, Dr. Nicolas Suzor, Dr. Kylie
Pappalardo,Dr.MoniqueMann,Dr.AngelaDaly,Dr.RowenaMaguire,Dr.Anna
Huggins, Dr. Felicity Deane and Dr. Bridget Lewis.
I am also grateful for the help and assistance from Dr. Michelle Maloney of
Griffith University, Dr. Nicole Rogers of Southern Cross University, Dr. Peter
Lawrence and Professor Dianne Nicol of the University of Tasmania,
ProfessorJacquelinePeeloftheUniversityofMelbourne,AssociateProfessorPeter
Burdon of the Adelaide Law School, Blair Palese and Charlotte Wood of 350.org,
Professor Debora Halbert and Professor Maxine Burkett of the University of
Hawaii, and the late Professor Michael Raupach of the ANU Climate Change
Institute.
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