Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Facebook and Microsoft Grant Free Patent Access for Low-Carbon Innovators
April 22 2021 - 11:50AM
Business Wire
Announced on Earth Day, the Low-Carbon Patent Pledge aims to
accelerate breakthrough technologies to address climate change
Innovators developing low-carbon technologies now have free
access to patents from three of the world’s largest tech companies
under the Low-Carbon Patent Pledge, a commitment to help tackle
climate change.
Beginning today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE),
Facebook, and Microsoft are making available key patents to
accelerate the adoption of low-carbon technologies. Under the
HPE-led initiative, hundreds of patents that could support
technologists developing low-carbon solutions for generating,
storing and distributing low-carbon energy will be available
royalty-free.
The Low-Carbon Patent Pledge comes amid warnings from the global
scientific community that breakthrough technologies will be vital
to cutting emissions fast enough to avert climate disaster. Roughly
half the reductions needed to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050
require technologies that are not yet commercially available1,
according to the International Energy Agency.
The listed patents cover a broad range of preventative or
adaptive technologies that can help combat climate change. These
include power management, enablement of zero-carbon energy sources,
efficient data center architecture, and thermal management.
“The world needs radical collaboration to meet this critical
moment in the climate crisis,” said John Frey, Chief Technologist
for Sustainable Transformation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “To
achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, we need to work together to
innovate faster. By opening up these patents, we hope to help
accelerate and encourage innovation by enabling others to build
upon our work.”
With well laid-out corporate sustainability plans of their own,
the coalition partners hope that granting public access to free
patents will spur researchers and scientists to unlock the
technological solutions the world will need to create a lower
carbon economy and a sustainable future.
"History has shown that voluntary pledges of patents can help to
promote new technologies and encourage their adoption around the
world,” said intellectual property law expert Jorge L. Contreras,
Presidential Scholar and Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney
College of Law, University of Utah. “This is precisely the kind of
initiative that's needed to combat the potentially catastrophic
effects of climate change."
The list of pledged patents and terms of use are available at
www.lowcarbonpatentpledge.org and will grow as the companies add
more to the list and other tech companies join.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud platform
as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes
by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on
decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way
people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent
technology solutions, with a consistent experience across all
clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business models,
engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more
information, visit: www.hpe.com.
About Facebook
Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build
community and bring the world closer together. We recognize the
urgency of climate change and are committed to help tackle this
global challenge. We are taking action by minimizing our emissions,
using renewable energy and reducing our energy and water usage,
protecting workers and the environment in our supply chain, and
partnering with others around us to develop and share solutions for
a more sustainable world. www.facebook.com.
About Microsoft
Microsoft is accelerating progress toward a more sustainable
future by reducing our environmental footprint, accelerating
research, helping our customers build sustainable solutions and
advocating for policies that benefit the environment. We are
committed to being carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050, will
remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted
either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded
in 1975. For more information on our company’s sustainability
commitments, check out our 2020 Environmental Sustainability
Report.
1 International Energy Agency. Energy Technology Perspectives
2020 – Special Report on Clean Energy Innovation. July 2020
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Adam Bauer, HPE adam.bauer@hpe.com
Kristen Morea, Facebook kmorea@fb.com
Todd Breasseale, Microsoft
todd.breasseale@microsoft.com
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