{"id":109520,"date":"2009-12-11T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.climatechangeinsights.com\/2009\/12\/articles\/cop15-copenhagen\/cop15-day-5-intellectual-property-and-developing-countries-frustrations-take-center-stage\/"},"modified":"2009-12-11T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:55:08","slug":"cop-15-day-5-intellectual-property-and-developing-countries-frustrations-take-center-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/109520","title":{"rendered":"COP-15 Day 5: Intellectual Property and Developing Countries&#8217; Frustrations Take Center Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Today, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">there was some limited progress on a few implementation issues which are largely peripheral to the main obstacles to a consensus agreement. &nbsp;Most of the work was done behind closed doors by separate working groups. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">In the morning session, intellectual property protection was a major focus as developing countries insisted on the free flow of new climate friendly technologies while R&amp;D companies feared the conversion and cloning of their intellectual property. &nbsp;In addition, scientists discussed in various briefings the implications of deforestation.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">India and China continue to oppose &#8216;targets&#8217; for emissions reductions. &nbsp;Indeed, the Chief Negotiator for the G-77 walked out amid developing countries frustrations. &nbsp;At this point, one possibility openly discussed is a political agreement among most developed countries only.&nbsp; The divide between developed and developing countries continues to center on funding, defined emissions reductions targets, and the transfer of technologies.&nbsp; Unfortunately, even in closed door sessions, posturing dominates over any actual concessions. &nbsp;Indeed, there was so little consensus that even the stream of competing drafts dwindled to a trickle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The Conference had a frenetic atmosphere as an avalanche of people converged on the Bella Center.&nbsp; Already, Conference organizers have started to consider new volume control measures as worries mount that the facility will reach capacity beginning early next week.&nbsp; Enhanced security amidst expected protests and the arrival of world leaders have complicated the capacity issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimateChangeInsights\/~4\/wBCFeqtqBSY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, there was some limited progress on a few implementation issues which are largely peripheral to the main obstacles to a consensus agreement. &nbsp;Most of the work was done behind closed doors by separate working groups. In the morning session, intellectual property protection was a major focus as developing countries insisted on the free flow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}