International legal issues raised by Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) have received close attention in recent years, including important amendments being made to two international marine environment protection treaties – the global London Protocol and the regional OSPAR Convention – to resolve their uncertain legal treatment of CO2 storage into the sub-seabed. To date, however, most published analysis on international legal issues raised by CCS has focused on those associated with the "third element" in the CCS project chain: long-term storage of the CO2. The focus of this paper is on key international legal issues raised by the "second element" in the CCS project chain: transport of the CO2 from its capture point to its storage location. More specifically, it investigates legal issues raised under selected international treaty instruments when the CO2 being transported has a cross-border element. This could arise in any CCS project, both onshore and offshore (or a mixture of both), where the CO2 being transported leaves the territorial jurisdiction of one state and enters into the territorial jurisdiction of one or more other states.
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