Australia could boost funding to transfer sustainable technology to developing countries and make technology and data open and accessible to help implement the UN Pact for the Future, QUT Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Professor Matthew Rimmer said.
“The Pact calls for the sharing of science benefits to not leave billions of people in the least developed nations behind,” Professor Rimmer said.
“The Pact’s ethos is to ensure that ‘innovations and scientific breakthrough that can make our planet more sustainable and our countries more prosperous and resilient should be affordable and accessible to all’.
The Pact for the Future was adopted at the UN’s Summit of the Future this month. The Pact for the Future is to be reviewed by Federal Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties.
The Pact for the Future also calls on Nation States to ‘Promote universal health coverage, increase access to quality, inclusive education and lifelong learning, including in emergencies, and improve opportunities for decent work for all, universal access to social protection to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities.’
The Declaration on Future Generations calls on nations to ‘Protect the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, through universal health coverage and strengthened and resilient health systems, as well as equitable access to safe, affordable, effective and quality medicines, vaccines, therapeutics and other health products, to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for present and future generations.’
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