Clean Coal Loan Guarantees and Tax Incentives: Issues in Brief
This Congressional Research Service report discusses certain federal financial incentive mechanisms for “clean coal” commercial projects; namely, loan guarantees and tax incentives.
Climate Geoengineering and Dispute Settlement Under UNCLOS and the UNFCCC: Stormy Seas Ahead?
Using the example of geoengineering, this paper considers how tensions between climate mitigation and management and conservation goals are likely to be addressed under the UNCLOS and UNFCCC regimes.
Legal Liability and Carbon Capture and Storage: A Comparative Perspective
The report is intended to highlight key themes that have emerged in thinking about the design of appropriate legal liability regimes for CCS, and uses as core examples for comparison three jurisdictions - Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
S.2260 – EXPIRE Act of 2014
Under this proposed legislation, non-corporate taxpayers would be allowed to exclude Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) grants and awards from gross income.
Geoengineering Research Governance: Foundation, Form, and Forum
This paper addresses the issue of geongineering oversight and governance with a focus on an ethical analysis and informed consent.
EPA Underground Injection Control Program
The EPA’s UIC program regulates and clarifies the use of enhanced oil recovery wells for sequestration.
Climate Engineering Field Research: The Favorable Setting of International Environmental Law
This article examines how existing international environmental law may regulate and influence field testing of climate engineering, specifically the riskier methods that include ocean iron fertilization.
Engineering a Solution to Climate Change: Suggestions for an International Treaty Regime Governing Geoengineering
This Note examines the international law that could govern geoengineering programs, with a focus on ocean iron fertilization and how international law must require that geoengineering be done on a multilateral scale.
Initiative 20×20
Initiative 20x20 is a country-led effort to bring 20 million hectares of land in Latin America and the Caribbean into restoration by 2020.
Climate Change Considerations under the Resource Management Act: A Barrier to Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment in New Zealand
This article contends that national environmental standards and national policy statements should be developed to direct or enable consent authorities in New Zealand to have regard to the positive aspects of CCS.