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- Environmental technology(abbreviated asenvirotech ) or green
technology (abbreviated asgreentech ) or clean technology
(abbreviated ascleantech ) is the application of the environmental
science to conserve the natural environment and resources, and to
curb the negative impacts of human involvement. Sustainable
development is the core ofenvironmental technologies . When
applyingsustainable developmentas a solution forenvironmental
issues , the solutions need to be socially equitable, economically
viable, and environmentally sound.
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- Environmental Remediation
4. This time, Dubai turning to nature to inspire a whole new
type of architecture: Dynamic Towers. The structure will mimic that
of a tree. The building's stable core resembles a thick trunk that
runs from the ground up, with the floors acting like branches and
leaves that shadow the rhythms of nature.The most exciting facet of
the new building in motion is its environmental friendliness. the
Dynamic Tower is the first building designed to be self-powered,
with the ability to generate electricity for itself, as well as for
nearby buildings. It achieves this feat with 79 wind turbines,
making it a true green power plant. .. Contd 5. Contd Micro
Algaegrows prolifically in areas not suitable for traditional crops
and can store massive amounts of oils and starches necessary to
make biodiesel or ethanol. Micro-algae has garnered considerable
attention lately, since it can produce 30-100 times the oil yield
of soybeans on the same acreage, while it's biomass remnants can be
reused as cattle feed supplement or fermented into
ethanol.Solazyme, a San Francisco-based startup, has been working
for the past five years on deriving biofuel from algae without
sunlight. They are using sugar. Algae are not entirely dependent on
sunlight for growth, in fact, they are 1000 times more efficient at
producing oils from sugar compared to growth by sunlight. Although
the process is still in development, Solazymes claim may prove to
have revolutionary merit. 6.
- A Patent sharing scheme employed to make business cleaner.
- Founded by some of the worlds biggest companies IBM, Nokia,
Sony and Pitney Bowes
- Provides a means of sharing knowledge for mutual and wider
social benefit
- The idea is that patents that may have environmental benefits
for other manufacturers are contributed to a pool, from which other
contributors and businesses and individuals outside the pool can
draw, free of charge
- The commons is run by the Geneva-based World Business Council
for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), was born of an idea coming
from IBM, the company with the largest number of patents in the
world.
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- The commons came to fruition initially with 31 patents pledged
in January 2008
- The patents pledged now number almost 100, some examples of
which are technology for removing liquid contaminants from ground
water, and a method for recycling optical disks.
- Long-term results from the program rather than a sudden
manufacturing revolution
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- The U.S. Commerce Departments Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) will pilot a program to accelerate the examination of green
technology patent applications.
- Pending patent applications in green technologies will be
eligible to be accorded special status and given expedited
examination, which will have the effect of reducing the time it
takes to patent these technologies by an average of one year
- Patent applications are normally taken up for examination in
the order that they are filed. The average pendency time for
applications in green technology areas is approximately 30 months
to a first office action and 40 months to a final decision. Under
the pilot program, for the first 3,000 applications related to
green technologies in which a proper petition is filed, the agency
will examine the applications on an accelerated basis.
- Motive of the Pilot program is to see a significant savings in
pendency, which will help bring green innovations to market more
quickly.
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- The European Patent Office (EPO)has embarked on a detailed
study to map the growth in eco-innovation since the introduction of
the Kyoto Protocol onclimate change.
- In April, 2010 next year when theEPOpublishes early results of
a major project looking at the growth in new patents for
environmentally sound technologies.
- The study will also look at how the green patent landscape has
evolved since the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
- By April 2010 EPO topublish early results of a major project
looking at the growth in new patents for environmentally sound
technologies.
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- Green patent applications are now eligible for "super speed"
examination at the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) that
will provide examination results in just one month.
- The special examination procedure is applicable to patent
applications aimed to several categories of technologies relating
to the environment or "low-carbon green growth." The green patent
applicants must however, request for a prior art search, to be
conducted by one of the three officially sanctioned search agencies
by KIPO, to qualify for the super speedy examination
procedure.
- The super speed system which was supposed to start on October 1
2009 will supersede the quick Korean timeline "from application to
acquire a patent" from an average of 18 months to a striking short
period of one month.
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- India have floated the idea of making new green technology
subject to compulsory licensing
- Group of 77 developing nations, led de facto by China, want to
apply the 'compulsory licensing to the climate crisis.
- China and India have repeatedly noted that developed countries
bear primary responsibility for climate change and are pushing the
EU and US to support poorer nations by providing them with clean
technologies
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- Initial results of study conducted by the European Patent
Office showed that over the last few years patent activity in clean
energy technologies has significantly increased, compared with the
fossil fuel sector.
- The most activity was in the fields of wind power, solar
photovoltaic and carbon dioxide storage. Patent activity in these
green technologies has jumped particularly in the US, Japan,
Germany, Korea, the UK and France during the ten years following
the 1997 Kyoto Protocol
- Technology transfer and licensing was found to be most active
in developed countries. However, growing economies such as Brazil,
Russia, India and particularly China have also been experiencing a
surge in patent transfer and licensing
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- There will be a further jump in green technology
patenting.
- Boom in clean energy patenting will be assisted by the
accelerated examination available for green patent
applications.
- Awareness on Clean Technology created more widely due to the
summit.
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- Technology is seen as a system rather than a specific physical
tool
- Requires the exploitation of the environment through the
creation and extraction of resources, and the exploitation of
people through labor, specialization and the division of labor
- Green technology is rejected as an attempt to reform this
exploitative system, merely changing it on the surface to make it
seem environmentally friendly .
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