Carbon capture and storage – legal and regulatory framework
This was a 2011 progress report on CCS readiness throughout the world with regard to the legal and regulatory framework development that is critical to CCS deployment.
The European Green Deal: New opportunities to scale up carbon capture and storage
This Global CCS Institute report takes a closer look at the European Green Deal and highlights three main challenges for CCS in the existing legislation.
Unconventional Mitigation: Carbon Dioxide Removal as a New Approach in EU Climate Policy
This study investigates the question of how the currently still unconventional carbon removal approach can be integrated into EU climate policy.
The Future of (Negative) Emissions Trading in the European Union
This paper explores various design options for integrating negative emissions technologies (NETs) into the EU Emissions Trading System.
Targeting Carbon Dioxide Removal in the European Union
This paper assesses how best to ‘target’ carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to motivate EU policymakers exploring which CDR target strategy may work best to start dealing with CDR on a meaningful scale.
The Challenge of Carbon Dioxide Removal for EU Policy-Making
This paper discusses the challenge that carbon dioxide removal presents to the European Union's low-carbon policy.
Towards an EU Regulatory Framework for Climate-Smart Agriculture: The Example of Soil Carbon Sequestration
This article assesses current and proposed EU climate and environmental law, and the legal instruments associated with the Common Agricultural Policy, to see whether soil carbon sequestration is a promising example of "climate-smart agriculture."
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.