Liability coverage for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is of paramount importance if the industry is going to … mature and develop in a way that will allow it to make a significant contribution to mitigating climate change. Liability for … closure occur over a relatively short period of time that may cover 20 to 30 years, typical liability instruments like private …

(sink) would not be compatible with the UNFCCC sink definition, what we already had mentioned in the paper. The present … paper is based on the UNFCCC definition and analyses how CCS could be integrated into the climate regime. As CO2 may re …-enter the atmosphere after injection into geological reservoirs, the question of long-term liability has to be considered. Apart …