Postgraduate Course: The Law of Carbon Management: Regulating Carbon Dioxide Removals and CCS (LAWS11542)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Managing carbon dioxide, whether through removals or sequestration, is becoming a major industrial activity in advanced economies. This course explores the emerging applicable law, regulation, institutions, and values. |
| Course description |
The course addresses an increasingly important issue within climate law, namely the regulation of carbon dioxide removals (CDR) and carbon capture and storage (CCS). Both operate, and are studied in this course, across legal levels (from public international law to domestic), legal disciplines (public and private law), and non-legal disciplines (economics, sociology, and physical sciences). It examines the range of CDR approaches, and CCS technology chains, as they relate to their emerging regulation, governance, and normativity. Students will be expected to evaluate their main strengths and weaknesses in comparative context; and consider how recent developments such as the EU¿s CRCF processes or the provisional application of the London Protocol advance (or otherwise) the field.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically discuss the emergence and development of key sources of climate law.
- Understand and evaluate the development of the regulation of CDR and CCS at multiple legal levels, and across different bodies of law.
- Identify key gaps and weaknesses of the processes of CDR/CCS regulation, and critically discuss options for reform.
- Demonstrate understanding of CDR/CCS technologies as they pertain to legal issues such as environmental safeguarding, civil liability, human rights protection, and administrative law.
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Reading List
¿ Smith S and others, ¿The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal - 2nd Edition¿ (Oxford, 2024)
¿ Bednar J and others, ¿Beyond Emissions Trading to a Negative Carbon Economy: A Proposed Carbon Removal Obligation and Its Implementation¿ (2023) Climate Policy 1
¿ Ghaleigh NS and Macinante J, ¿Déjà vu All Over Again: Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR) and Legal Liability¿ [2023] Journal of Environmental Law
¿ Markusson N and others, ¿A Socio-Technical Framework for Assessing the Viability of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology¿ (2012) 79 Technological Forecasting & Social Change 903
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Completion of the course will develop a number of key GraduateAttributes including: curiosity for learning that makes a positive difference; courage to expand and fulfil individual potential; passion to engage locally and globally; critical and reflective thinking; and skilled communication.
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| Keywords | Climate law,carbon dioxide removals,carbon capture and storage,law and regulation |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Navraj Ghaleigh
Tel: (0131 6)50 2069
Email: N.Ghaleigh@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Susanna Wickes
Tel:
Email: Susanna.Wickes@ed.ac.uk |
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