Description      
The BC Clean Air Research (BC CLEAR) Fund promotes excellent research by funding transformative, internationally significant research of strategic importance for the management of air quality in British Columbia. Research projects are invited relating to (but not be limited to) the following focus areas, air quality science processes such as meteorological and atmospheric chemistry, weather, air quality and ecosystem/health effects models that would lead to more reliable tools used for air quality management decision-making, identification, quantification and characterizing the space and time variability of emission sources, monitoring methods that provide cost-effective and accurate measures of emissions, meteorology, ecosystem and human health effects, emissions control approaches that include clean fuels, improved processes, newer technology and market-driven programs, links between air quality and ecosystem and human health impacts, public communication/behaviour-change approaches, economic valuation of air quality benefits/impacts, air quality/climate change co-benefits, and air quality management systems.

Comments      
The Fraser Basin Council provides administrative support to the Steering Committee by acting as the Fund secretariat. The BC Clean Air Research Fund is sponsored by the BC Ministry of Environment and is jointly managed by three parties, namely the BC Ministry of Environment (MoE), Metro Vancouver and Environment Canada (EC). The Fraser Basin Council receives proposals, communicates with applicants and prepares annual reports for the Fund. As a guide, the annual funding from the CLEAR Fund will generally not exceed $25,000 for a single project although, depending on the project and at the discretion of the Steering Committee, this maximum can be increased.

Contact Information      
Terry Robert, Program Manager, Fraser Basin Council 1st Floor, 470 Granville Street Vancouver, BC V6C 1V5 Tel: 604-488-5360 Fax: 604-488-5351

Website: www.fraserbasin.bc.ca/programs/clear.html

Email: trobert@fraserbasin.bc.ca