• Dr. Meena Rai
• Prof. Ashok Kumar Marathe

There is a substantial difference between the words world and earth. While the earth can be one, the whole world is divided. It has been twenty years since the publication of the report “Our Common Future” has been done. But the plight of the planet has not changed even a bit. The degradation of nature and natural resources have been the most discussed yet the least implemented issues of the recent times. Several individuals are coming out with a propaganda to save the nature but they seem all but empty sounds. The threats continue to destabilize the world’s ecosystem. The need to completely eradicate these threats is not possible to be met by a single nation or individual. It will require a mammoth participation of the international society to ward off these threats. But it is difficult to categorize the world into a single unit. We are still divided politically, economically as well as socially. On one hand, we have the prosperous and developed nations of the West and on the other, we have the lesser developed nations of Africa, Asia and the Latin Americas. Thus, our world continues to severely suffer from what is called the “North-South divide”. The 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm is said tomark the beginning of modern international environmental law, which is characterizedby a shift in the interests of states from trans boundary environmental mattersto global environmental concerns. At the same time the states’ awareness ofthe close interdependency of development and the environment increased. Twentyyears later, the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiroraised the concept of “sustainable development” that embodies this interdependency was the leitmotif of all subsequent international environmental activities.

THE NORTH - SOUTH DIVIDE IN THE WORLD OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION

"THE NORTH - SOUTH DIVIDE IN THE WORLD OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no.d647-d655, April-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2204380.pdf

"THE NORTH - SOUTH DIVIDE IN THE WORLD OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no. ppd647-d655, April-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2204380.pdf