Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the technological process of capturing carbon dioxide from a power plant or industrial activity and the storage of that captured carbon dioxide in an underground basalt formation, saline aquifer, depleted oil and gas reservoir, or sub-sea geologic formation.
Romario de Carvalho Nunes, Hirdan Katarina de Medeiros Costa
This paper reviews the international regulatory structures and legal requirements related to the authorization and monitoring of CO2 storage facilities, with a close look at the Brazilian framework.
Kai Jiang, Peta Ashworth, Shiyi Zhang, Xi Liang, Yan Sun, Daniel Angus
This paper analyzes China's existing CCUS regulatory framework at the national and provincial level, evaluates its performance and clarifies its shortcomings in light of the comparisons of policy movements undertaken in other countries.
This IEA Clean Coal Centre report identifies the financial and regulatory CCUS framework needed to deliver more positive carbon pricing signals, provide for investment in transport and storage infrastructure, and enable projects to access financing.
This Global CCS Institute briefing seeks to communicate and educate stakeholders on the potential risk characteristics of CCS and to discuss these in the context of de-risking CCS investments and addressing challenges from a US perspective.
Dominic Rassool, Christopher Consoli, Alex Townsend, Harry Liu
This Global CCS Institute report provides an overview of the organizations involved in the deployment of large-scale CCS facilities, and the policy and regulatory frameworks that have supported this deployment.
This paper reviews the role of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement in enabling countries to meet the objectives they have set themselves in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), with particular emphasis on how it can impact CCS.
This Global CCS Institute brief focuses on the latest developments with regards to the 45Q tax credit for carbon oxide sequestration in the US, including a summary of the guidance released so far.
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.
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.