Cquestrate needs legal advice
There are two exciting and innovative legal aspects to Cquestrate. The first is the creation of an ‘anti-patent’ space around the project to allow unfettered development. This has been done before in other areas such as software development (Linux being a shining example) but, as far as we know, never in a chemical, industrial or environmental area.
The second is the challenge of addressing environmental regulations that didn’t forsee introducing large quantities of chemicals to the oceans as being beneficial.
The questions
We believe the questions around intellectual property are pretty much answered. However, the environmental law issues are trickier. We need to know:
- What legislation (whether it be international, EU/a similar organisation or national) prevents large quantities of chemicals (calcium oxide and/or calcium hydroxide) being added to the oceans?
- What steps have been taken to relax those laws to allow the addition chemicals that would have a beneficial effect?
What we need
We’ve contacted some excellent lawyers who have provided a quote for their services in answering these questions. Unfortunately Cquestrate’s initial funding (provided by Shell) won’t cover this cost.
We are looking for:
- An environmental lawyer or team of lawyers; and/or
- A pro bono group who are concerned with climate change/the environment
to take this on as a pro bono opportunity to be conducted in the open-source spirit that Cquestrate has adopted. We can only offer recognition as a valuable contributor to a project that may just address one of the biggest challenges of our time.
If you’d like to be a part of this project please contact us at contact@cquestrate.com.
Also, f you know anyone who could help us, please ask them to get in touch with us.
2 people have left a comment
- Podnosh Blog » Archive » Very neat video explaining programme to turn back the clock on climate change says: November 16th, 2008
- Pierre Jones-Savard says: November 23rd, 2008