Joy Y. Xiang, Associate Professor of Law, Peking University, China

• Contents: 1. Introduction: A viable pathway for enabling developing countries to attract foreign cleantech and build domestic cleantech innovation 2. Concepts and linkages: Global community, climate change, sustainable development, cleantech PART I INTERNATIONAL CLEANTECH TRANSFER 3. International cleantech transfer examined PART II GLOBAL CLEANTECH DEVELOPMENT 4. Necessity and reality of global cleantech development PART III A SOLUTION 5. A proposal for enabling global cleantech development and international cleantech transfer 6. International aid for building capacities in developing countries for cleantech importation and innovation 7. Mutually beneficial international cleantech collaboration 8. Sustainable domestic cleantech innovation by developing countries 9. Appraisal of the proposal Conclusion – a pathway to global sustainable development, to our shared future Index

‘Technology development and transfer are vital to confronting the climate crisis, but the relationship between cleantech and intellectual property rights has too often been simply asserted or assumed. In this much-needed book, Professor Xiang applies rigorous and evidence-based analysis and advances fresh conclusions and a bold proposal for how to make progress.’