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Case Study on the State-Actors and their Coalitions in the Regime Formation of Carbon Capture and Storage in OSPAR Conve

Keiko SEGAWA （International Strategy Division, Ministry of the Environment, Japan）

Abstract:
This paper analyzes the development of coalitions of state-actors and their behavior during the development of new schemes for environmental impact assessment on carbon capture and storage under the sub-seabed (hereafter, “CCS”). This paper deals the coalition development and interplay of two regimes of CCS, specifically focusing on the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter of 29 December 1972 and the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic. The two regimes have almost same legal texts and framework of administrative instructions on implementation, which make the institutional linkage and interplay in the context of CCS. The coalition was expanded through the accumulation of discussion of both of legal and technical aspects of CCS. In these cases, the parties which supported the amendment of legal texts of two regimes found profit by mutual support and understanding of the situation brought by members in the coalition. The opposite parties without coalition did not counter the proposal on CCS issues and could not increase the support of other parties, which were defeated by voting on the amendment of protocol.

Key Word:
London Convention, OSPAR, 1996 Protocol, carbon capture and storage, coalition, regime

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