CIL Ocean Law and Policy Research Assistant Amanda Wee participated in the Carbon Capture and Storage at Sea Conference: Regulation and Governance of Transport, Sequestration, and Liability from 7-8 May 2026 held at Lund University, Sweden. She presented her paper, ‘Implications of Justice on the Evolving Law Governing Carbon Sequestration at Sea’ in Panel 1 (Ocean Governance & the Law of Sub-Seabed Storage).

Her paper argues that the current international legal regime governing offshore geological carbon storage finds itself in a deficient and reactionary state due to the lack of firm undergirding principles in the London Protocol. As such, she argues that three (3) principles of justice, extrapolated from the nature and characteristics of CCS, should be incorporated into the legal regime, namely, intergenerational equity, distributive justice, and ecological responsibility from an eco-centric approach (drawing from the literature on Earth Jurisprudence and the Rights of Nature movement). She does so by first tracing theory and normatively examining how these principles can be translated into law. Through doing so, she argues that the international legal framework’s deficiencies, such as its anthropocentric nature and inadequate protection of the marine environment, can be addressed. Further, it would also consider the rights and interests of future generations and indigenous peoples and vulnerable communities which have often been sidelined in favour of the use of CCS by developed states to mitigate climate change.

Conference website: https://ccsatsea2026.com | CCS_Book_of_Abstracts