Rimmer, Professor Matthew --- "Foreword - Raising climate ambition: a resolution for a green new deal" [2019] ELECD 2374; in Brown, E.L. Abbe (ed), "Intellectual Property, Climate Change and Technology" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) ix

Book Title: Intellectual Property, Climate Change and Technology

Editor(s): Brown, E.L. Abbe

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Foreword – Raising climate ambition: a resolution for a green new deal

Author(s): Rimmer, Professor Matthew

Number of pages: 15

Extract:

Foreword ­ Raising climate ambition: a
resolution for a green new deal
Professor Matthew Rimmer*


INTRODUCTION
Professor Abbe Brown's book Intellectual Property, Climate Change and
Technology represents a heartfelt cry to increase climate ambition.
Brown is a legal academic based at the University of Aberdeen,
Scotland, where she is a member of the Centre for Commercial Law and
the Centre for Energy Law. Her work spans intellectual property,
commercial law, human rights, competition policy, and climate law.
Brown has previously published a monograph, Intellectual Property,
Human Rights and Competition: Access to Essential Innovation and
Technology in 2012,1 an edited collection, Environmental Technologies,
Intellectual Property and Climate Change in 2013,2 and a Research
Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries edited with
Charlotte Waelde in 2018.3 Her latest book represents both a consolida-
tion of her past research interests and an expansion into new territory,

* Professor Matthew Rimmer (BA/LLB ANU, Phd UNSW) is a Professor in
Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at the Faculty of Law in the Queens-
land University of Technology (`QUT'). He is a leader of the QUT Intellectual
Property and Innovation Law research program; and a member of the QUT
Digital Media Research Centre (QUT DMRC), the QUT Australian Centre for
Health Law Research (QUT ACHLR), and the QUT International Law and
Global Governance Research Program (QUT IL GG). Save where otherwise
indicated, all links were accessed February 2019.
1 Abbe EL Brown, Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Competition:
Access to Essential Innovation ...