The use of CCS technologies in large scale: an analysis of the brazilian legal framework

Abstract

In the combat of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions, technologies using Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies have shown great results. The structuring of a regulatory framework for the use of CCS technologies is essential to create a trusted environment to civil society and private initiative. International experience points to the development of the regulatory framework for CCS technologies, in particular geological storage of CO2, by means of the regulatory experience of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technologies. This work has the main objective of identifying the existing legal and infra-legal regulatory documents in force in Brazil which may have some correlation with the CCS technology and its widespread use, in order to identify regulatory gaps and weaknesses for deploying CCS projects in Brazil.