Proposed roadmap for overcoming legal and financial obstacles to carbon capture and sequestration

Jacobs, Wendy ; Chohen, Leah ; Kostakidis-Lianos, Leah ; Rundell, Sara

Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (United States)

关键词: Financing;    Viability Greenhouse Gases;    Storage;    Financial Incentives;    Recommendations;   

DOI  :  10.2172/960199
RP-ID  :  ETP-DiscussionPaper-2009-04
RP-ID  :  none
RP-ID  :  960199

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

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.This roadmap focuses on the legal and financial incentives necessary for rapid demonstration of geological sequestration in the absence of national restrictions on CO2 emissions. It weaves together existing federal programs and financing opportunities into a set of recommendations for achieving commercial viability of geological sequestration.