NUS Centre for International Law and Innovation Norway are co-organising a webinar to explore prospects and challenges in the development of offshore Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) in Southeast Asia and outside.

Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) is now increasingly viewed as one of the essential technologies necessary to meet net-zero goals and is therefore the subject of substantial technological and financial investments as well as some ambitious novel projects, with a particular focus on sequestration in sub-seabed formations. However, this growing interest to develop CCS in sub-seabed geological formations meets technological, logistical and legal concerns linked to the risk of adverse effects to the marine environment.

The webinar will provide an overview of offshore CCS, including an introduction to the climate change legal and policy context in which CCS is being pushed globally, a presentation of on-going development projects of offshore CCS, including a case study based on ongoing projects in Norway and the international legal framework applicable to offshore CCS.

The webinar will bring together international lawyers, industry players and engineers to discuss the drivers of current developments as well as the challenges and risks, including environmental risks, social barriers and technical constraints, with a particular focus on the legal repercussions of these questions.

WELCOME REMARKS

Dr Nilüfer Oral, Director, NUS Centre for International Law

MODERATOR

Danielle Yeow, Lead, Climate Change Law and Policy, NUS Centre for International Law

PANELLISTS

Matthias Honegger Senior Research Associate, Perspectives Climate Group

Cindy Kaharmen, Development Planner – Low Carbon Solutions, ExxonMobil

Youna Lyons Senior Research Fellow NUS Centre for International Law

Ruth Hilde Sætre General Counsel, Northern Lights