WIPO GREEN – Global Platform for Demonstrating Ecologically Sustainable Technologies

The World Intellectual Property Day 2020 is dedicated to the key role of innovations and intellectual property in providing for green future.

The World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Global platform WIPO GREEN is a platform for demonstrating environmentally sustainable technologies. It fosters problem-solving in climate changes and cultivating relations between those in need of environmentally safe technologies and those in possession of.

WIPO GREEN was set up back in 2013. In principle databases and WIPO GREEN network are to facilitate cooperation between the key actors in the field of ecological innovations further supporting global actions in climate changes. Stimulating innovations in this field and expansion of their use, aiding developing countries in solving such global issues as climate changes, food safety and environmental protection is the main task of this platform.

At the moment WIPO GREEN network totals more than 3.5 thousand of technological designs, requests for such engineering work and experts as well as hundreds of partners ranging from small-size start-ups to companies listed in Fortune-500. Around 1.4 thousand of users across the globe are members of this network. There have been around 640 contacts established which bear potential for co-operation.WIPO GREEN acts in accordance with the strategic plan the main aim of which is to promote speeding up transition to a greener global economy.

WIPO GREEN database contains full information about technologies ranging from prototypes to ready-made products including data on licensing, building cooperation, setting up joint ventures and trade. There is also information about companies’, state institutions’ and non-governmental organisations’ priorities in search of technologies which they will be able to further use in solving various ecological problems including the climate changes.

WIPO GREEN coordinates a number of so-called project-catalysts for several geographical regions or technical fields. These projects facilitate necessary cooperation between vendors and consumers of technologies for their further transfer and use of green technologies. For example, one current project in Latin America aims to tackle local problems, discovering opportunities for green technologies and building interrelations in the field of climatically optimised agriculture.

WIPO GREEN report about implemented projects and results achieved is published annually. Additionally, WIPO GREEN assists in organising green technologies exhibitions. In November 2016 there was an exhibition of technologies specifically tailored for Africa states in the course of the twenty-second Marrakesh Parties Conference consultation. The latest twenty-fifths Parties’ Conference consultation witnessed the WIPO GREEN exhibition dedicated to the role of innovations and technology transfer benefiting agriculture in several countries by optimising its management. 

Source of references: WIPO