Kur and Calboli, ‘Intellectual property in the circular economy’

It is no revelation that we are on our way to exhausting the limited resources of our planet. We have known it for a long time, even though it has taken decades for the urgency of efforts to reduce the pace and dimension of over-exploitation to be broadly realized. Moreover, the need to prepare for the transition into a more sustainable, circular form of the economic system became part of official policy programmes only recently. In particular, it was only in 2015 that sustainable development and a circular economy entered the mainstream international debate with the adoption of the ‘Responsible Consumption and Production Goal’ as part of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals …

Annette Kur and Irene Calboli, Intellectual property in the circular economy, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, volume 18, issue 5, May 2023, pages 337-338. Published: 13 May 2023.

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