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Transport Infrastructure for Carbon Capture and Storage

2020
Think Tank Report
Elizabeth Abramson, Dane McFarlane, Jeff Brown
This white paper identifies near-term carbon capture and storage opportunities, then designs and plans the regional transport infrastructure required to maximize CO2 abatement while minimizing cost and land use impact.

Powering the Future: An Inclusive National Clean Energy Standard with Negative Emissions Technologies

2020
Scholarly Work
Narayan S. Subramanian
This Note proposes a robust National Clean Energy Standard that can incorporate Negative Emission Technologies (NETs), while identifying the potential legal barriers to an NCES that includes NETs.

Direct air capture: An emerging necessity to fight climate change

2020
Scholarly Work
Michael B. Gerrard
This article provides an overview of the need for direct air capture in fighting climate change and highlights some of the emerging legal and regulatory issues of deploying the technology at scale.

Forest policy and management approaches for carbon dioxide removal

2020
Scholarly Work
Nicolena vonHedemann, Zachary Wurtzebach, Thomas J. Timberlake, Emily Sinkular, Courtney A. Schultz
The goal of this paper is to review a range of policy tools in place to support use of forests for CDR and demonstrate how concepts from the policy design literature can inform our understanding of this domain.

Once a Fringe Idea, Geoengineering Moves to Center Stage in Policy Arena

2020
News/Commentary
Shuchi Talati, Robert James, Wil Burns
This edited transcript from an Environmental Law Institute webinar looks at potential domestic U.S. legal governance structures and the international institutions that might be applicable to governing carbon dioxide removal.

Analyzing Regulatory Framework for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technology Development: A case study approach

2020
Scholarly Work
Mac Osazuwa-Peters, Margot Hurlbert
This article provides a review of a portfolio of regulations advancing CCS including technical regulations, pore space ownership, monitoring, enforcement and verification of CO2 injection.

Carbon capture and storage: Intellectual property, innovation policy, and climate change

2020
Scholarly Work
Matthew Rimmer
This chapter focuses upon technology development in respect to carbon capture and storage – exploring intellectual property, government funding, and innovation prizes, and whether or not such incentives have been productive.

Incentivizing Negative Emissions Through Carbon Shares

2020
Scholarly Work
Derek Lemoine
This paper describes a new climate change policy that replaces an emission tax with a bond used to fund an asset called a “carbon share,” which can optimally incentivize both emission reductions and emission removal.

Carbon capture and storage in the USA: the role of US innovation leadership in climate-technology commercialization

2020
Think Tank Report
Lee Beck
This paper seeks to provide an overview of CCS deployment in the USA while assessing the maturity of the US deployment framework, including policies and infrastructure.

Pore Space Property

2020
Scholarly Work
Joseph Schremmer
This article reviews the development of common law rights in water and oil and gas to synthesize lessons for shaping the content and limits of rights in pore space.

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