Parties
were split on how to enhance action on technology development and transfer to
support mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.
Some parties, mainly
Annex I, want the issue of intellectual property in particular pushed to fora
other than bodies under the UNFCCC – institutions such as the World
Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and the World Trade Organsiation
(WTO).
Developing
countries however want technology and its related issues addressed under the
AWG-LCA and other UNFCCC bodies.
AWG-LCA
contact group, chair Aysar Tayeb of Saudi Arabia also underscored this sharp
divide in his final report to the group on May 24, 2012.
