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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
Updated landscape on expedited protection of “green” inventions in Brazil
Over the last decade, the Brazil' National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) has been working to improve its operational efficiency, and in particular, to reduce its chronic backlog in processing patent applications.
Turkmen inventors tackle water scarcity
In countries like Turkmenistan with large expanses of arid land, agricultural development is held back by high levels of soil salinity and acute shortages of fresh water. Turkmen inventors have come up with a range of innovative technologies to tackle soil salinity and optimize management of freshwater.
Climate change: the time to act is now
Climate change is one of the most urgent and complex challenges of our time.
Sustainability in the circular economy
Without urgent action, annual global waste generation will rise to 3.4 billion tonnes by 2050.
WIPO GREEN: supporting green innovation and technology transfer
Find out how WIPO GREEN, an online marketplace for green technology, is accelerating green technology innovation.
Water quality and inequality
By 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in areas suffering water stress.
Airbus: making the blue skies green
Find out what Airbus, the world’s biggest aircraft manufacturer, is doing to tackle climate change.
Bio-engineering: unlocking nature’s treasures
For Professor Oded Shoseyov, a pioneering materials engineer, serial inventor and entrepreneur, nature is a source of inspiration.
Climate action and sustainability: Indigenous peoples are part of the solution
As the global community focuses on ways to combat the effects of climate change and to transition to a low-carbon future, it must not forget to engage with Indigenous peoples.
Patenting trends in renewable energy
The development of renewable sources of energy is essential to tackling the climate crisis.
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