Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | USA | 9 Feb 2022
Risk management is one of the few key policy issues to facilitate carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Class VI storage facilities that has not been…
Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law | Switzerland | 6 Dec 2021
Zurich voters have approved new rules on reducing CO2 emissions caused by the building sector. This allows the most populous canton of Switzerland to make a substantial contribution to climate protection. The revised Energy Act is expected to result in a 95% reduction of CO2 emissions from heating systems in the Canton of Zurich by 2040, compared with 1990 levels. The approval of this......
Lexology PRO | Australia, Canada, China, etc. | 14 Nov 2021
Key updates from COP26 for the energy, finance, agriculture and transport sectors, including mandatory net-zero plans, rules for fixing methane leaks, and “phasing down” investment in coal.
Fasken | Canada | 16 Jul 2021
The shift to a zero emission transportation sector will include airplanes. The Air Transport Action Group reports that the global aviation industry…
Steptoe & Johnson LLP | European Union | 15 Jul 2021
Yesterday, the European Commission published the long-awaited “Fit for 55” Package designed to drive forward the EU’s objective to radically reduce…
White & Case LLP | European Union | 15 Jul 2021
As a key part of the "Fit for 55" European Green Deal package, the European Commission has published its controversial proposal for a carbon border…
Hogan Lovells | USA | 5 Mar 2021
On Friday, February 26, the Biden Administration’s newly-resurrected Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (IWG) announced new…
Hogan Lovells | USA | 4 Mar 2021
On Friday, February 26, the Biden Administration’s newly-resurrected Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (IWG) announced new…
Jones Day | USA | 26 Feb 2021
On January 6, 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") issued much anticipated final regulations with respect to…
Loyens & Loeff | Belgium | 17 Dec 2020
Recently approved by the Committee for Finance, a draft bill was passed by the Belgian Parliament concerning the reference CO2 emission, one of the…