The project seeks, as a general objective, to develop international standardization proposals related to the above emerging technologies that will be tackled by RCGI’s teams.
This project adopts the premise that the construction of a new O&G industry and economy of low carbon comprises regulatory and legal challenges and innovations that go beyond the dimensions of standardization.
Limiting global climate change to within safe boundaries is essential. Effective action requires a better alignment of policy, law and regulation frameworks with climate goals.
Yet, the challenges to be overcome in the law, regulation and policy fields are sensible and not always well identified and qualified. Major innovations are required in the legal field, including changes in the legal practices, in their philosophical foundations as well as in the interpretations of courts and public prosecutors.
This project will deal with the law, regulation and policy levers that may ease the Brazilian transition to a low-carbon economy.
The project will study specific activities that are more central to the decarbonization challenges established by RCGI and dealing with the themes of NBS, CCU, GHG and BECCS.
For those technologies, the legal framework remains practically absent or with restricted (and often isolated) initiatives. Brazil must set up appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks, such as laws, decrees, ordinances, standards etc. Legal and regulatory issues are fundamental to create a basis to implement these technologies and making them available for helping the country to achieve the Brazilian goals on NDCs.
The success of the project will open the possibility for Brazil to take the lead in these emerging technical fields, by promoting law movement and actions in these fields, and create conditions for national and international influence on more general law and regulatory aspects associated with the technologies employed in this field of knowledge.
The project will highlight market and legal designs that fail to provide signals for investment in the needed low-carbon economy; will provide pathways for the integration of land-use planning and sustainable energy systems (which remains difficult, both in urban and in rural land uses); will help to identify environmentally harmful subsidies and legal/fiscal incentives still in place etc. In short, the project will work out with law, regulation and policy frameworks that must be revisited to ease the transition to low carbon society and economy.
TEAM
Edmilson Moutinho dos Santos – Energy and Environment Institute/University of São Paulo
Deputy Coordinator:
Dominique Mouette – School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities/University of São Paulo