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This conference will bring all three of these groups together, to seek a broad mutual understanding of the current situation and clarity for future directions.

 CHEMRAWN (Chemical Research Applied to World Needs) and the International Conferences on Carbon Dioxide Utilization (ICCDU) will hold a combined conference in Kingston on science and policy related to mitigation and utilization of CO₂ and other greenhouse gases.

  The meeting is being held 6 months before the Kyoto-protocol commitment period begins. Signatory governments are committed to meeting their targets within the 2008-2012 time period. How will this be achieved?

Scientists, engineers and industrial or governmental policymakers are invited to participate in this conference. The conference will cover the following topics:

• The carbon balance in Nature
• Mitigation strategies
• Government policy
• Improved combustion processes
• Capture of CO2
• CO2 sequestration
  • in terrestrial reservoirs
  • in deep seas
  • in soil and biomass
  • by carbonate formation
• Mitigation of N2O and methane
• Utilization of CO2
  • Enhanced oil or gas recovery
  • Methane recovery from hydrates
  • Enhanced agricultural production
  • As a solvent or in CO2-expanded liquids
• CO2 as a feedstock
  • Biochemical conversion
  • Homogeneous catalysis
  • Heterogeneous catalysis
  • Photochemical or electrochemical conversion

The conference organized jointly with the 9th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization, is scheduled to be held at 8-12 July 2007 at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Information on the conference is available at the follwing Website www.chem.queensu.ca/greenhouse/

 <announcement published in Chem. Int. Jan-Feb 2007, p. 17>