Browsing by Author "Radu, Ana Maria"

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    Alberta's CO2 Reduction Strategy - Assessing the Environmental Integrity of Emissions Trading Schemes
    (Canadian Institute of Resources Law, 2014-03) Radu, Ana Maria
    National and regional emission trading schemes (ETSs) for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions represent an essential policy response to climate change around the world. Witnessing a proliferation of carbon pricing schemes in different jurisdictions, the possibility of further reducing compliance costs by allowing allowances to be traded, not just within, the systems become reality. This is commonly referred as linking the systems. This process is not risk-free; as a matter of fact ill-considered links may be counter-productive, to the point that they might undercut the efforts to reduce GHG emissions. This paper signals the need to identify such ill links and points out the danger zones when linking ETSs. The paper proposes a criteria-based analysis in order to determine the degree of environmental integrity.
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    Long-term Liability for Carbon Capture and Storage Project Activities within the Clean Development Mechanism
    (2013-01-09) Radu, Ana Maria; Bankes, Nigel
    Recent research has emphasized the importance of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) as a greenhouse gas mitigation option for responding to the risk posed by global warming. When regulating CCS, however, long-term liability has proved to be one of the most difficult aspects to address. This thesis is concerned with long-term liability for non-permanence for CCS as a Clean Development Mechanism project activity. The purpose of this thesis is to identify the optimum solution to address this problem. In order to achieve this, the thesis puts CCS in the context of other CDM project activities (Afforestation and Reforestation) which pose analogous non-permanence challenges. It also examines two different liability regimes: the international regime for oil tankers and the European Union’s CCS legislation. It then proposes a test based on three major principles of international environmental law to measure the appropriateness of different liability schemes before concluding that a transfer of liability to the host country is the optimum way to address liability.