Carbon Capture and Storage: Emerging Legal and Regulatory Issues

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is increasingly viewed as one of the most significant ways of dealing with green house gas emissions.

Critical to realising its potential will be the design of effective legal regimes at national and international level that can handle effectively the challenges raised but without stifling a new technology of potential great public benefit.

These include long-term liability for storage, regulation of transport, the treatment of stored carbon under emissions trading regimes, issues of property ownership, and increasingly the sensitivities of handling the public engagement and perception.

Since its publication in 2011 Carbon Capture and Storage quickly became required reading for all those interested or engaged by the need to implement regulatory approaches to CCS. The intervening years have seen significant developments globally. Many earlier models are now in force. A number of governments have sought to improve their frameworks.

Despite all these developments, the growth of technology has been slower than that required under international models. This timely new edition will update and critically assess these updates as well as providing context for the development of CCS in 2018 and beyond.