IEA

The Carbon Capture Legal Programme has assisted and collaborated with the International Energy Agency on a number of CCS-related projects, most notably in association with the IEA, the IEA GHG Implementing Agreement, and the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, to create the International CCS Regulatory Network. The Network aims to provide policy makers with opportunities to interact with peers in an objective, neutral forum. The Network currently has over 700 members worldwide, with its participants representing some 35 countries (including 14 developing nations).

To date there have been three formal meetings of the Network and a number of web seminars, which have addressed specific legal and regulatory aspects of CCS deployment. Details of the web seminars can be found below.

Further information about the IEA's work on CCS and the International CCS Regulatory Network may be found here.

For further details on this collaborative work, please contact Richard Macrory.

Publications

The CCLP has worked closely with the IEA on its CCS publications. CCLP members have served as expert reviewers and provided content for the following publications:

• Legal Aspects of CO₂ Storage: Update and Recommendations
• Technology Roadmap for CCS.

In 2010, the CCLP was core to the development and drafting of the Model Framework and has contributed to the biannual CCS Legal and Regulatory Review.

• CCS Legal and Regulatory Review (October 2010; Edition 1)
• CCS Legal and Regulatory Review (May 2011; Edition 2)
• CCS Model Regulatory Framework

Webinars and Events

A complete and up-to-date list of these events, including full details, presentation slides and sound recordings, is provided below:

• Talking process: steps in developing regulatory frameworks for CCS demonstration and commercial deployment (18 July 2011)
• Third International CCS Regulatory Network meeting (1-2 March 2011)
• The IEA Model CCS Regulatory Framework and a review of CCS regulation worldwide (24 November 2010)
• Financial Mechanisms to Support Long Term Liability for CCS (30 June 2010)
• Second International CCS Regulators' Network meeting (20-21 January 2010)
• CCS Outcomes from Copenhagen (14 January 2010)
• What is required for CCS site handover? (22 September 2009)
• CCS Public Engagement and Consultation - Lessons Learned (15 June 2009)
• Financing CCS: Updates on US and EU Developments (20 March 2009)
• CCS Roadmap Meeting - Financing, Legal & Regulatory and Public Awareness Issues (2-3 February 2009)
• CCS: Regulatory Approaches to Address Liability (15 January 2009)
• Getting Started: Laying the Legal and Regulatory Foundations for Early CCS Demonstration Projects (9 October 2008)
• CO₂ Transport, Health and Safety Issues (10 July 2008)
• Launch of the International CCS Regulators' Network (13-14 May 2008)