[sustran] Reminder: BAQ 2008 submission of abstracts (until 30 May 2008)

[Michael Co]

Dear all,

The BAQ 2008 Program Committee has received over 200 abstracts already 
and is in the process of reviewing these. Meanwhile, we would like to 
offer the possibility to those people who missed the original deadline 
to submit their abstracts focusing on the linkage(s) of air quality and 
climate change and the co-benefits of addressing these issues in a joint 
manner.

The extended deadline is 30 May 2008.

Please follow the guidelines for abstracts submission on www.baq2008.org 
carefully.

Abstracts on the following topics will be a priority:

1. Co-benefits and Air Quality Management

  * Scientific understanding of linkage between air pollutant
  emissions and GHG emissions at the local, national and regional scale
  * Monitoring and modeling
  * Inventories and source apportionment
  * Impacts on health and environment
  * Policies and legislation
  * Financing and cost-benefit analysis
  * Institutional arrangements to promote a co-benefits approach
  * Technology transfer

2. Co-benefits and Transport

  * Inventories, emission factors and measuring methodology
  * Engine technology
  * Fuels and fuel quality standards
  * Sustainable transport planning and implementation
  * Land use planning
  * Policy instruments
  * Financing, including CDM or alternative approaches such as
  sectoral or policy based CDM

3. Co-benefits and Industry and Power Generation

  * Inventories, emission factors and measuring methodology
  * Combustion and processing technology
  * Energy efficiency
  * Fuels and renewable energy
  * Policy instruments
  * Financing, including CDM or alternative approaches such as
  sectoral or policy based CDM

4. Co-benefits and Indoor Air Pollution

  * Linkage between indoor-outdoor air
  * Relationship in-door air quality and climate change
  * Inventories, emission factors and measuring methodology
  * Impacts
  * Technology developments


Best regards,

Bert Fabian &  Cornie Huizenga