Carbon Capture and Storage in International Energy Policy and Law

Hirdan Katarina de Medeiros Costa, Carolina Arlota

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780323852500
• eBook ISBN: 9780323853705
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Carbon Capture and Storage in International Energy Policy and Law identifies the main contemporary regulatory requirements, challenges and opportunities involving CCS from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It draws on the scholarship of renowned researchers across the fields of international energy law and policy to address CCS regulation and its impact on climate change, sustainable development, and related consequences for energy transition. In this vein, the book aims to address issues related to energy, energy justice and climate changes (including CCS technology). Contributors discuss the main challenges and advantages concerning international energy and the forms CCS may contribute to energy security, climate change, adaptation and mitigation of GHG emissions and sustainable development. In this light, the book discusses CCS as a bridge that integrates international energy, climate change and sustainable development. - Covers contemporary regulatory command-and-control and market incentive instruments across the local, regional and/or international spheres in-depth and in comparison - Reviews deregulatory impacts, modern financing of CCS, liability of the involved parties, and pertinent environmental issues - Addresses sociotechnical aspects of CCS and its specific impact on the international arena - Discusses the interplay of carbon capture and storage, renewables and the overall energy transition, current pathways to sustainable development

Table of contents

• Carbon Capture and Storage in International Energy Policy and Law
• Chapter 1 International Energy Law: still a brave new world?
• Chapter 2 The energy of cooperation
• Chapter 3 Climate change mitigation and the technological specificities of carbon capture and storage
• Chapter 4 The institutional approach of climate change at the multinational level: the new paradigm of the Brazilian legislative experience
• Chapter 5 Carbon capture and storage technologies and efforts on climate change in Latin American and Caribbean countries
• Chapter 6 Geologic CO2 sequestration in the United States of America
• Chapter 7 The United Kingdom’s experience in Carbon Capture and Storage projects: the current regulatory framework and related challenges
• Chapter 8 Regulatory framework carbon capture, utilization, and storage in Europe: a regulatory review and specific cases
• Chapter 9 Australian legislation on new mitigation technologies—the case of carbon capture and storage
• Chapter 10 Carbon capture and storage: Intellectual property, innovation policy, and climate change
• Chapter 11 Negative-emission technologies and patent rights after COVID-19
• Chapter 12 Who is taking climate change seriously? Evidence based on a comparative analysis of the carbon capture and storage national legal framework in Brazil, Canada, the European Union, and the United States
• Chapter 13 Reducing CO2 emissions through carbon capture use and storage and carbon capture and storage in Mexico and Alberta, Canada: addressing the legal and regulatory barriers
• Chapter 14 Legal and regulatory barriers to CO2 geological storage in Brazil: Lessons from the European Union
• Chapter 15 An overview of the existing carbon capture, utilization, and storage projects in Asia: Comparing policy choices and their consequences for sustainable development
• Chapter 16 Relevant aspects of carbon storage activities’ liability in paradigmatic countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, European Union, Japan, Norway, United Kingdom, and United States
• Chapter 17 A transitioning model: from oil companies to energy players
• Chapter 18 Sustainable development and its link to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology: toward an equitable energy transition
• Chapter 19 Why is social acceptance important for capture, storage, and transport of carbon (CCS) projects?
• Chapter 20 Climate change, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), energy transition, and justice: where we are now, and where are (should be) we headed?
• Index