The World's First Carbon Dioxide Removal Law Database 15
Today, researchers at Columbia University launched the world's first database of carbon dioxide removal laws, providing an annotated bibliography of legal materials related to carbon dioxide removal and carbon sequestration and use. It is publicly available at cdrlaw.org. Phys.Org reports: The site has 530 resources on legal issues related to carbon dioxide removal, including such techniques as: direct air capture; enhanced weathering; afforestation/reforestation; bioenergy with carbon capture and storage; biochar; ocean and coastal carbon dioxide removal; ocean iron fertilization; and soil carbon sequestration. The database also includes 239 legal resources on carbon capture and storage, utilization, and transportation. New resources are constantly being added.
This site was created by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, in cooperation with the Carbon Management Research Initiative at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. Generous financial support was provided by the ClimateWorks Foundation and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. The Sabin Center is also undertaking a series of white papers with in-depth examinations of the legal issues in particular carbon dioxide removal technologies. The first of these, "The Law of Enhanced Weathering for Carbon Dioxide Removal," by Romany M. Webb, has just been released.
This site was created by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, in cooperation with the Carbon Management Research Initiative at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. Generous financial support was provided by the ClimateWorks Foundation and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. The Sabin Center is also undertaking a series of white papers with in-depth examinations of the legal issues in particular carbon dioxide removal technologies. The first of these, "The Law of Enhanced Weathering for Carbon Dioxide Removal," by Romany M. Webb, has just been released.
Law vs. Enforcement (Score:2)
This database is misleading. Many countries can have all kinds of laws on the books .. it's all about what gets enforced and how selectively. Some countries are notorious for virtually everything being illegal, but it's only enforced when the government doesn't like you. I'm pretty sure corruption is illegal in every country, yet it's alive and well in every country to various degrees.
Re:Law vs. Enforcement (Score:4, Insightful)
CCS is just a waste of resources that are better deployed elsewhere.
There are brand new coal-fired power plants under construction in India, Indonesia, Africa, and elsewhere. Once built, they will be a sunk-cost that will be nearly impossible to reverse. They will spew billions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere for a century.
Humanity's top priority should be to stop the construction of new coal-burning power plants and instead build renewables or nukes.
A few boutique feel-good CCS projects are just a distraction from that.
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save gas ... (Score:2, Funny)
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How does that work? Do you have a fart combustion engine, or do you plan on liquifying the methane and selling it to Elon to power his rockets?
Re: save gas ... (Score:2)
So much data (Score:2)
The site has 530 resources
Wow, hope they don't exceed their AWS limit.
Not sure but this sounds bad (Score:2)
Oh wait yea laws do nothing, maybe we should be chatting about paying some engineers
You wants new feelings ? (Score:1)
Soooo... trees? (Score:2)
How much you want to bet that eventually you will need a permit to plant trees?
How much CO2 to remove? (Score:1)
Who will stop them from reducing CO2 to a level where people start to die? Is there a mechanism in place to prevent this?