Subject: Visiting Australian Professor: Climate Justice, Trade & IP Seminar, Thurs 25 Sept
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:19:12 +0000

Climate Justice: Intellectual Property, Trade & Global Warming
TOMORROW: Thursday 25 September
1.20pm - 2.30pm
McDonough 588
A Discussion Hosted by Georgetown University Law Center with Visiting Professor Matthew Rimmer, Australian National University.
Examining recent legal and political discourse, Professor Rimmer will present on conflicts over intellectual property and climate change in three key arenas: climate law; trade law; and intellectual property law.
Professor Rimmer will examine how reforms to intellectual property and trade law can address both climate change and its underlying impact on achieving justice and equity: from the perspectives of health, poverty, migration and development.
Light refreshments provided.
Event Details
Professor Rimmer will discuss the debate over intellectual property and climate change under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992, and the establishment of the UNFCCC Climate Technology Centre and Network.
The seminar will also examine the discussion of global issues in the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO GREEN as well as the dispute in the TRIPS Council at the World Trade Organization over intellectual property, climate change, and development.
Professor Rimmer will argue that intellectual property law reform should promote climate justice in line with Mary Robinson’s Declaration on Climate Justice 2013.
About Professor Matthew Rimmer
Professor Matthew Rimmer is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow; an associate professor at the ANU College of Law; and an associate director of the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA).
He is a member of the ANU Climate Change Institute. Amongst other things, he is the author of Intellectual Property and Climate Change: Inventing Clean Technologies.
He was one of Managing IP’s 50 most influential intellectual property people in 2014.
For any questions relating to this event, please contact Alexandra Phelan: [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>