Sustainable Energy Law Notebook

The European Commission has adopted today, 4 March 2020, a proposal for a regulation establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality , also called European Climate Law . The proposal for a Regulation is available at the following address: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/commission-proposal-regulation-european-climate-law-march-2020_en.pdf A short commentary will soon be available.

The topic of this weekly podcast by Montel News is "On the road to climate neutrality" . I answered some questions on what is on the EU climate and energy agenda. Listen to the full podcast here: http://podcast.montelnews.com/257968/2859160-on-the-road-to-climate-neutrality Summary Ahead of the EC publication of its Climate Law next week, this week’s pod discusses the implications for Europe’s energy sector. Listen to a discussion on carbon border taxes, sector coupling, ETS reform and decarbonising gas. Host:  Richard Sverrisson, Editor-in-Chief Europe, Montel.  Guest:  Catherine Banet, Associate Professor in Energy Law, University of Oslo.  Produced by Anna Siwecka.

The XIIIth edition of the European Energy Law Report , edited by Martha M. Roggenkamp and Catherine Banet, has been published in January 2020 by Intersentia. The European Energy Law Reports are an initiative taken by the organisers of the European Energy Law Seminar which has been organised on an annual basis since 1989. The seminar is now taking place in January each year in The Hague. This volume includes chapters on "Newcomers in the Electricity Market: Aggregators and Storage", "Hydropower Concessions in the EU: A Need for Liberalisation or Privatisation?", "Investments and des-Investments in the Energy Sector", "Offshore Decommissioning in the North Sea", "CCS as a Climate Tool: North Sea Practice" and "From EU Climate Goals to National Climate Laws". Book website: https://intersentia.com/en/european-energy-law-report-xiii.html ISBN 9781780689500

Waiting for the announcement on 11 December 2019 of the concrete measures that the European Green Deal will cover, the European Commission has published on its website a list of policy areas which will be concerned. With the announced objective of "becoming the world's first climate-neutral continent" , the following areas of action will apparently be prioritised: adoption of a European climate law: it will set in law climate reduction targets in order for the EU to become climate-neutral by 2050; extension of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme to air transport and shipping; a "climate pact" which could relate to the development of carbon removal solutions (natural or technology-based) and the further development of "clean" energy sources; a mechanism of Carbon Border Tax; promoting circular economy approach and biodiversity; a just and socially fair transition; a necessary revision of related energy legislation to Ensure the...

Did you miss our seminar in Oslo on 14 November 2019 on the legal aspects of carbon capture and Storage (CCS) deployment? You can now watch it on line on Youtube  HERE . Topic : « Climate emergency & legal response: the role of law in CCS deployment. Regulatory incentives to enable carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Norway and Europe.»

There has been an important update on the issue of transboundary transport of CO 2 for the purpose of permanent storage , as covered by the London Protocol's export amendment (2009 amendment to Art 6). This is of primarly importance for the realisation of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects which include the international transport of CO 2 .

The last pieces of legislation of the Clean Energy for All Europeans Package have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union of 14 June 2019. Those acts cover electricity market design, risk-preparedness and the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER): Directive (EU) 2019/944 of 5 June 2019 on common rules for the internal market for electricity and amending Directive 2012/27/EU Regulation (EU) 2019/941 of 5 June 2019 on risk-preparedness in the electricity sector and repealing Directive 2005/89/EC Regulation (EU) 2019/942 of 5 June 2019 establishing a European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of 5 June 2019 on the internal market for electricity .