Framework Parent: CRB Methodology
World Wide Web enabling the UN climate talks?
The UN Climate talks and their outcomes include institutional, policy and operational innovations that involve a vast number of different actors.
Wikis and other web-based content services are key to ensure transparency and focus throughout these negotiations and the implementation of the resulting instruments.
We mention these official web-based resources:
- The UNFCCC official website
- The IPCC website
and these resources created and maintained by civic and private initiative:
- LinkedIn group UNFCCC Friends, a group that aims to create and maintain an inventory for civic activities that are related to the UNFCCC.
- citeulike group on climate change, listing more than 1200 publications related to climate change.
- citeulike group UNFCCC, listing about hundred publications related to the topics addressed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- UNFCCC Civic Wiki a wiki supporting article per article access to negotiation drafts of the UN climate talks - the justification for this fine-grained access to negotiation drafts is that only at that level of detail, comments on those drafts can be both meaningful and constructive. This is illustrated in recent posts.
Content Commons in the Climate Talks
The broad interest and the vast common stakes in these talks makes them a suitable candidate for applying the Collective Regulative Bundle Methodology and the supporting systematized content commons for reasons explained at A New Development Practice Model.
Accelerate the diffusion of environmentally sound technologies by Global Patent Pools?
For the background of this initiative, see UN-climate-report-envisions-modified-trips-as-governments-seek-progress (post) and Informal-UN-climate-talks-indicate-continued-divergence-on-ip-issues (post). The importance of TRIPS (Trade Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) is addressed in publications such as World Economic and Social Survey 2009.
Alongside the systematic analysis of the content commons in the UN climate talks, it should be investigated if and how Global Patent Pools could become a suitable mechanism for accelerating innovation and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies.
