Patents and the Right to a Healthy Environment: An Outline of a Response to the Critics

As recent polit­i­cal devel­op­ments make the prospect of a glob­al con­sen­sus on – let alone an ade­quate response to – cli­mate change an ever more dis­tant fan­ta­sy, inno­va­tion and tech­nol­o­gy are increas­ing­ly look­ing like the most promis­ing option (not to say last straw) of avoid­ing an eco­log­i­cal cat­a­stro­phe. For instance, the Inter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) esti­mates … con­tin­ue reading