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Wimbledon grass: the secret protected by plant variety rights
From Wimbledon to the FIFA World Cup, intellectual property rights drive the development of new plant varieties, ensuring the grass is always green for major sports tournaments.
Carbfix: Carbon capture and storage technology turns CO2 into stone
Carbfix, the Icelandic carbon-capture company using IP to scale its climate technologies.
Carbon One: long-lasting battery technology
Meet Carbon One, the Chinese climate-tech startup whose new battery technology could make your smartphone or electric car run for days.
Green-nickel extraction: Baniql's IP scaling strategy
Baniql, the climate-tech startup using IP to scale up its climate technologies. Discover how its patent strategy helped raise millions for breakthrough green tech.
‘Painting’ with data: how media artist Refik Anadol creates art using generative AI
Generative AI is set to reshape not just technology but also the way we create and think about art. Media artist and designer Refik Anadol is at the forefront of the revolution.
Patent Data Show One-Third of Inventions Relate to the SDGs
Christopher Harrison introduces a new WIPO patent analytics report showing the impact of intellectual property in advancing global sustainability efforts. Using technical information in patent data seldom published elsewhere to map the intersections between patents and the UN Sustainable Development Goals reveals robust relations and emerging connections.
Natural Solutions To Battle Microplastics
Lactips is rethinking plastic with its fully biodegradable natural milk-derived bio-material alternative.
WIPO’s Green Technology Book: What You Can Do to Tackle Climate Change
The Green Technology Book demonstrates that there are solutions that everyone can use to tackle climate change. Find out what you can do today to help overcome these challenges.
Air Quality Monitoring for a Healthier Environment for All
Slovenia’s Aerosol Magee Scientific, a leading developer of air quality monitoring systems keeps an eye on air quality to help reduce pollution and negative health effects.
Lion Lights: Shedding Light on Wildlife Protection in Africa
Young Kenyan inventor Richard Turere has developed an ingenious automated flashing light system to safeguard livestock from lions and other large predators. His foundation, Lion Lights, works with local communities across Africa, encouraging them to use this system to promote peaceful coexistence between humans and wildlife.
The Right to Repair: Recent Developments in the USA
Do you automatically think you have the right to repair your smartphone or any other electronic product you own? The fascinating debate around the right-to-repair, in which IP rights are central, reveals that this is not always the case.
Upcycling, Sustainability, and IP: What It Means for the World of Fashion
As consumer awareness around sustainability grows, upcycling, thanks to its environmental benefits, is becoming one of the most popular new ways to “consume” fashion. But is it risk-free from a legal standpoint? Leading academic Irene Calboli takes a closer look at the IP issues that can arise.
Green trademarks and the risk of greenwashing
With climate change, demand for goods that are sustainably produced and environmentally friendly is rising, with many companies embracing green marketing. Kathryn Park explores how brands can go green the right way and avoid the perils of greenwashing.
Building sustainable futures with traditional knowledge in New Caledonia
Subama Mapou, a young Kanak scientist from New Caledonia comes from a long line of traditional healers. She discusses her work in supporting local Indigenous groups, and how IP is enabling her to leverage the value of New Caledonia’s natural resources and traditional knowledge.
Goho App: helping Zimbabwe’s young farmers tackle climate change
Find out how the Goho App is helping to educate young farmers tackle the effects of climate change in Zimbabwe.
IP and youth: educating our future innovators
Young people today are demanding an education that will give them with the knowledge and skills to make sustainability a reality. How are educators responding and what are the benefits of entrepreneurial education in a rapidly changing world?
Young Japanese inventor’s ingenious robot on wheels supports climate action
Find out how Muraki Kazumi came to invent the world’s smallest interactive carbon capture device. It can absorb up to six liters of CO2 in one hour at the press of a button.
Building a better future with recycled plastic
Kenyan young entrepreneur Nzambi Matee is committed to making the circular economy a reality. Inspired by the late environmental conservationist and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, she explains how she came to establish Gjenge Makers, which produces affordable building materials from recycled plastic.
Turkmen inventor finds new cost-saving ways to recycle rubber and plastic waste
Recognizing the pressing need to tackle environmental pollution from rubber and plastic waste, Rizayev Eldar Guseynovich, a young Turkmen entrepreneur, is developing new ways to transform garbage into a a range economically useful products.
Making innovation work for a green future in Nigeria
In 2020, the WIPO Nigeria Office launched the maiden WIPO National IP Essay Competition as part of its World Intellectual Property Day activities. Read the winning essay by Susan Chioma Omeh entitled "Making innovation work for a green future in Nigeria".
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