WIPO Director General Attends Series of SDG Summit Events in New York
September 20, 2023
WIPO Director General Daren Tang joined world leaders, agency heads and UN System Principals at the UN Headquarters in New York for the 2023 SDG Summit events where he showcased WIPO GREEN as a game-changing digital platform driving positive global change to advance SDG13 on climate action.
Mr. Tang gave an address during the SDG Digital event organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that emphasized the power of digital solutions to accelerate progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and put them back on track.
As the UN agency for innovation, creativity and intellectual property, the World Intellectual Property Organization believes that to solve global challenges like climate change and put the SDGs back on track, we need to unleash the power of human innovation and creativity. And our belief that making bold statements like this must lead to strong action on the ground.
WIPO Director General Daren Tang
Mr. Tang told participants about WIPO GREEN’s efforts to harness the power of digital to connect providers and seekers of green technologies across the globe now covering 130,000 technologies from over 140 countries and leading to more than a thousand matches around the world.
While in New York, Mr. Tang held several bilateral meetings, including with Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva of Cabo Verde where they discussed future cooperation in support of creative industries particularly in the digital environment, the blue economy, and technology parks.
In his meeting with Mrs. Paula Narváez Ojeda, President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and Permanent Representative of Chile, Mr. Tang pledged WIPO’s commitment to ensure that intellectual property (IP) is part of the development journey of countries seeking to catalyze economic and sustainable growth.
With Mr. Dennis Francis, President of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Tang discussed WIPO’s vision of bringing IP closer to entrepreneurs, SMEs, women and youth on the ground and across the globe as well as the value of IP as critical enabler for innovation and creativity underpinning most of the SDGs.
Mr. Tang also met with several UN Principals to strengthen synergies and highlight the work being done by WIPO to support entrepreneurs, SMEs, women and youth in developing countries to use IP tools through mentoring, skills and knowledge training.