Sleipner and Pre-Salt: The Competitive Strategic Concerns of Promoting CCS in Norway and Brazil

The analysis suggests that in Norway and Brazil, CCS deployment is driven by strategic economic competitiveness and regulatory arrangements rather than solely by climate change mitigation goals or high fossil fuel dependence.

• Contrary to common arguments that CCS deployment is driven by high fossil fuel dependence and emissions taxes, Norway and Brazil only partially meet these criteria.
• In Norway and Brazil, CCS has been utilized as a strategic instrument for economic competitiveness instead of as a primary option for mitigating climate change, supported by initial incentives from private or public regulatory frameworks.
• The observation that economic competitiveness drives CCS deployment suggests that policymakers could adopt alternative incentive structures and policy instruments to promote the technology.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2011). Sleipner and Pre-Salt: The Competitive Strategic Concerns of Promoting CCS in Norway and Brazil. https://www.sei.org/publications/sleipner-and-pre-salt-the-competitive-strategic-concerns-of-promoting-ccs-in-norway-and-brazil/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Sleipner and Pre-Salt: The Competitive Strategic Concerns of Promoting CCS in Norway and Brazil. 2011. https://www.sei.org/publications/sleipner-and-pre-salt-the-competitive-strategic-concerns-of-promoting-ccs-in-norway-and-brazil/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2011sleipner, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Sleipner and Pre-Salt: The Competitive Strategic Concerns of Promoting CCS in Norway and Brazil}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2011}, month = apr, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/sleipner-and-pre-salt-the-competitive-strategic-concerns-of-promoting-ccs-in-norway-and-brazil/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }