Leah Cohen

March 2009

"Proposed Roadmap for Overcoming Legal and Financial Obstacles to Carbon Capture and Storage"

Discussion Paper

By Wendy B. Jacobs, Leah Cohen, Leah Kostakidis-Lianos and Sara Rundell

Many existing proposals either lack sufficient concreteness to make carbon capture and geological sequestration (CCGS) operational or fail to focus on a comprehensive, long term framework for its regulation, thus failing to account adequately for the urgency of the issue, the need to develop immediate experience with large scale demonstration projects, or the financial and other incentives required to launch early demonstration projects.  We aim to help fill this void by proposing a roadmap to commercial deployment of CCGS in the United States.