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Carbon Capture and Storage Project Development: An Overview of Property Rights Acquisition, Permitting, and Operational Liability Issues

2008
Scholarly Work
Thomas A. Campbell, Robert A. James, Julie Hutchings
This article covers potential challenges and solutions for CCS on topics such as the acquisition of property rights; permitting at both the federal and the state levels; and identification, reduction and transfer of liabilities.

Iron Fertilization in the Ocean for Climate Mitigation: Legal, Economic, and Environmental Challenges

2007
Scholarly Work
Raphael Sagarin, Megan Dawson, David Karl, Anthony Michael, Brian Murray, Michael Orbach, Nicole St. Clair
This paper is aimed to provide lawmakers, non-government organizations, the public and business interests with a brief overview of iron fertilization and its potential benefits and risks.

Research for Deployment: Incorporating Risk, Regulation, and Liability for Carbon Capture and Sequestration

2007
Scholarly Work
Elizabeth J. Wilson, Julio Friedmann, Melisa F. Pollak
This article develops a list of outstanding research and technical questions driven by the demands of the regulatory and legal systems for the geologic sequestration (GS) component of CCS.

Permitting issues for CO2 capture, transport and geological storage: A review of Europe, USA, Canada and Australia

2007
Scholarly Work
Paul Zakkour, Mike Haines
The paper reviews the environmental, health and safety permitting/regulatory issues presented by CO2 capture and storage (CCS) operations across the full project cycle in the EU, North America and Australia.

Deploying Carbon Capture and Storage in Europe and the United States: A Comparative Analysis

2007
Scholarly Work
Andrew J. Gibbons, Elizabeth Wilson
This paper explores the existing energy, policy, regulatory and legal climates that will necessitate different approaches for CCS deployment in the United States and European Union.

Reforestation Tax Incentives Under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004

2007
Scholarly Work
Thomas J. Straka, John L. Greene
This study reviews how the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 benefited owners of large forest holdings over the intended beneficiaries, small woodland owners.

Liability and Financial Responsibility Frameworks for Carbon Capture and Sequestration

2007
Think Tank Report
Elizabeth Wilson, Mark A. DeFigueiredo, Chiara Trabucchi, Kate Larsen
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.

Forest Certification in North America Report

2006
Scholarly Work
Eric Hansen, Rick Fletcher, Ben Cashore, Constance McDermott
This report surveys the technical challenges to and opportunities from developing forest certification systems. It includes a list of major third-party forest and wood product certification systems.

The United States Department of Energy’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships program: A collaborative approach to carbon management

2005
Scholarly Work
John T. Litynski, Scott M. Klara, Howard G. McIlvried, Rameshwar D. Srivastava
This paper reviews the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSP) concept, which uses a geographically-disposed system type approach for the United States.

Developing a set of regulatory analogs for carbon sequestration

2004
Scholarly Work
D.M Reiner, H.J Herzog
This paper seeks to better understand the drivers of a future CCS regulatory system and evaluates the historical evolution of comparable regulatory regimes through the lens of public goods problems.

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