Abstract:

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol provide some preliminary ideas of carbon capture and storage but give no definition on whether CCS can be regarded as the greenhouse gas emission reduction mechanism of contracting states. CCS technology has impacted and questioned many fields of traditional international law. Some terms in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol should be interpreted broadly or modified, and, based on the negotiation among the contracting states, legal issues concerning carbon capture and storage should be put in the postKyoto legislation of climate change.

Key words: carbon capture and storage, climate change, international legal issues