Summary/Abstract
This study aims at identifying a number of key approaches to developing the existing CCS policy and legal framework in Japan to commercialize CCS deployment, based on ongoing research. The paper addresses a number of key developments: maximizing a best mix technological solution to mitigating the GHG emissions in Japan including the role of CCS (i.e. Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage – CCUS), setting specific targets for CCS and technological roadmap; considering two scenario options for a legal framework so called ‘regulatory-based model’ and ‘public-work model’; and utilizing the role of SEA and EIA which could be applied as the useful tools to conceptualize, review and improve the existing policy and legal framework. It further emphasises a need for a comprehensive framework at the regional level and attempts to address its key development areas to be considered, in order to realise a low/zero carbon society in the Asia-Pacific region.