Moving from the Brown Economy to the Green Economy: The Battle over International Intellectual Property

Abstract The article analyses potential intellectual-property-related disputes amid transfer of technology in the green economy within international investment legal regime. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) protect human innovation and intellectual efforts. Tech transfer, IPRs particular, has an important role to play move towards economy. In reality, it is ‘private-sector-driven’ approach – foreign investment, licensing, export that plays dominant tech transfer. Previously, private investors had brought over (IP) Towards economy, this argues can still meet more complicated challenges regime due nature IPRs, sources tech, characteristics climate crisis.