Green Innovations Call For Strong IP Protection

We have frequently discussed how technological innovation is vital to the global economy's continued success and how protecting the Intellectual Property central to that process is critical. But it is not enough to simply praise tech for this fact and not examine how it can be much more than a driver of profit or creator of convenience in our personal and professional lives.

The undeniable threat of climate change - exemplified recently by massive wildfires in Canada, unprecedented heatwaves in the Pacific Northwest and dwindling populations of certain animal species worldwide - must be discussed in tandem with the new and still-developing tech being used to alleviate the phenomenon's most startling effects.