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The International CCS Regulators Network:
The IEA, in association with the IEA GHG Implementing Agreement, University College London’s Carbon Capture Legal Programme and the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, has created the CCS Regulators Network to provide policy makers with opportunities to interact with peers in an objective, neutral forum. The Network involves policy practitioners from a variety of arenas of expertise, from local, state/provincial, national, regional and international levels. Network participants present case studies and status updates, ask questions, and discuss possible solutions to challenges they face developing adequate CCS legal & regulatory frameworks.
Issues
Key areas covered by the Network include:
- Establishing jurisdiction among different agencies/classifying CO2
- Property rights for CO2 storage and transportation
- Environmental risk mitigation, including public health protection, groundwater protection and protection of flora and fauna
- Monitoring and verification methodologies for CO2 retention in storage sites
- CO2 transport issues, including pipeline access, quality issues and permitting
- Public consultation and acceptance of proposed CO2 storage sites
- Legal status of CO2 when it is stored offshore in international waters
Activities
The Network will undertake several activities: (1) hosting a series of meetings and internet/web conferences on specific legal and regulatory aspects of CCS; and (2) creating a public IEA website that includes information on regulatory developments at the national, sub-national and international levels, and provides access – wherever possible – to presentation and discussion materials from Network meetings. Additional information on regulatory developments can be found at the University College London’s Carbon Capture Legal Programme website.
The Network was launched in Spring 2008 with a meeting of more than 100 CCS experts in Paris. At this two-day meeting, participants heard national and international regulatory updates and exchanged views on specific legal issues associated with the expansion of CCS worldwide.
The launch meeting was followed by the first in a series of interactive web meetings, held on 10 July 2008, on carbon dioxide transport, health and safety issues. Each of the web conferences in this series will be approximately 2 hours in length, and will involve regulator-to-regulator peer exchange. The next such web conference is scheduled to take place in early October 2008. Participation in Network meetings and web conferences is by invitation only and is free of charge. For more information or to join the network, click here.
Launch meeting held on 13-14 May 2008 in Paris
CCS web conference on carbon dioxide transport, health and safety issues, 10 July 2008, 15h30 Paris time
CCS web conference on the legal foundations for early CCS demonstration projects, 9 October 2008, 15h00 Paris time