Assessing a Liability Regime for Carbon Capture and Storage
This paper examines potential CCS liability within a U.S. context and surveys the existing environmental and tort law liability regimes that may affect CCS.
Liability and Financial Responsibility Frameworks for Carbon Capture and Sequestration
This WRI issue brief examines liability and financial responsibility frameworks potentially applicable to CCS projects by considering existing analogs and options for mitigating the near-and long-term risks of CCS technologies.
An International Regulatory Framework for Risk Governance of Carbon Capture and Storage
This essay seeks outlines some of the key components of an international risk governance framework necessary for the widespread diffusion of CCS.
Net-Zero and Geospheric Return: Actions Today for 2030 and Beyond
This report identifies a set of actions, investments, and policies that can best lay a foundation for growing deployment of CCS and large-scale carbon dioxide removal through engineered systems to meet net-zero global emissions targets.
Alberta’s approach to the transfer of liability for carbon capture and storage projects
This paper reviews the different liability issues associated with CCS projects as well as the case for transferring liability post-closure to the government of Alberta Canada.
The Government’s Multi-Faceted Role in Resolving the Main Legal Issues regarding Carbon Capture and Sequestration
This article addresses four CCS legal issues that are of common importance to governments and should be covered in any future regulatory systems: permitting, environmental impact assessments, liability, and property rights.
Uncertain liability and stagnating CCS deployment in the European Union: Is it the Member States’ turn?
This article considers that EU Member States and the industry need to cooperate closely with site‐specific agreements and give commercially reasonable meaning to the EU CCS Directive’s terms in order to facilitate deployment of the technology.
The UK Liability Framework for the Transport of CO2 for Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage Operations
This paper compares the potential liability arising from the carriage of CO2 by ships and by pipelines in the uk offshore context.