Reference: www.ccc2006.ca

Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa, Canada, May 9 to 12, 2006

Call for Papers and Presentations:
Track 1 - Policy, Strategy and Regulations

Dear Colleagues,
We are contacting you to solicit proposals for Track 1 papers, panel
and
poster presentations focusing on policy, strategy and regulations. The
conference will highlight engineering aspects of greenhouse gas
management.
At this time we are seeking proposals in the form of 300 - 400 word
abstracts. The detailed call for proposals (papers) and an Internet
based
submittal process are available at the website identified above. The
deadline for proposals is March 18th 2005.

The conference website was established several months ago. Subsequently
the
Kyoto Protocol came into force. Canada is now the only country in the
Americas with a greenhouse gas reduction commitment under Kyoto. The
United
Nations also announced on February 16th that Canada will host the
eleventh
of the annual United Nations meetings related to development of the
Kyoto
Protocol (COP-11) and the first of the meetings (COP/MOP 1) focused on
its
implementation. This meeting will precede our conference and will be
held in
Montreal from November 28 to December 9, 2005.

The call for papers indicates that Track 1 will cover the science of
climate
change, government policy and regulations, commitments and targets,
emission
trading schemes and environmental issues and assessments.

We are particularly interested in papers which take into account
Canada’s
1990 emissions baseline and quantify greenhouse gas reduction
expectations
of proposed policy, strategy and regulations. Several websites in
Canada
provide background data. In particular, detailed studies (www.nccp.ca)
of
the significance of Kyoto to Canada’s economic sectors are available in
reports from the Issue Tables under National Process. Canada’s
Greenhouse
Gas Inventory 1990-2002 is posted at
www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ghg/ghg_home_e.cfm.

Since we anticipate Canada will need to take advantage of the
international
mechanisms (i.e. emissions trading CDM and JI) within Kyoto to effect
compliance, we also welcome related submissions from outside Canada.
Additional relevant information is posted at www.climatechange.gc.ca.

Track 1 also seeks papers which go beyond the first Kyoto compliance
period to consider integrating strategy and policy relevant to the
second
commitment period and the longer term. In this context, proposals
within the
following categories will be considered timely.

á Strategy and policy for developing a full range of engineered
greenhouse gas management technologies for domestic and international
deployment

- Integration of climate change objectives into Canadian energy
and
foreign policy, trade and aid objectives

- Establishing policy for Canada’s participation in carbon
credit and
trading markets including linkage with other countries systems

- Positioning Canada to compete in a carbon dioxide constrained
world
from the viewpoint of business, provincial and federal governments

We look forward to your proposals. Several other tracks are available
to
authors as well, should your interest and expertise lie outside Track
1.
Please see the Call for Papers on the conference website:
(http://www.ccc2006.ca) for details.

 SustainabiliTank.info posting March 8, 2005)