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13 - How Do Climate Change and Energy-Related Partnerships Impact Innovation and Technology Transfer?: Some Lessons for the Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

from Part III - Environmental Issues: Green Technologies and Agriculture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2018

By
Ayşem Mert  and
Philipp Pattberg
Edited by
Margaret Chon ,
Pedro Roffe  and
Ahmed Abdel-Latif
Margaret Chon
Affiliation:
Seattle University School of Law
Pedro Roffe
Affiliation:
International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development
Ahmed Abdel-Latif
Affiliation:
International Renewable Energy Agency, Abu Dhabi
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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are endorsed and applied across a number of global public policy arenas, from health to climate change. PPPs for sustainable development at the global level emerged after the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development as voluntary cooperative arrangements between governments and non-state actors to address and implement specific sustainability goals, but the role and relevance of these partnerships remain contested. This chapter addresses the relationship between partnerships and intellectual property rights as part of a broader inquiry into processes of technology transfer and institutional innovation. It scrutinizes whether climate and energy-related partnerships focus on technical implementation of existing technologies, technology transfer, knowledge dissemination, or innovation. It analyzes their performance related to tackling the problems they were set up to address, drawing on multi-year research on the emergence and effectiveness of PPPs for sustainable development, using the large Global Sustainability Partnerships Database to understand better the role and relevance of PPPs in contemporary global environmental governance.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Public-Private Partnerships, Intellectual Property Governance, and Sustainable Development , pp. 289 - 307
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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