Summary
The Third Extraordinary Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (ExMOP 3) opened in Vienna, Austria, on 22 July 2016. In the morning, delegates heard opening remarks from dignitaries. A ministerial round table entitled ‘Moving Forward to Deliver in 2016 on the Mandate of the Dubai Pathway on HFCs’ then took place. Following this round table, delegations made general statements, which continued into the afternoon.
The informal group (as part of the Contact Group on HFC Management) also met in the afternoon and into the night.
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John Barkat, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Ombudsman
Li Yong, Director General, UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
MOP 27 President Virginia Poter, Canada
John Kerry, Secretary of State, US
MOP 27 President Virginia Poter, Canada, shaking hands with John Kerry, Secretary of State, US
Rajani Ranjan Rashmi, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, India
Catherine McKenna, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Canada
Mohamed Mubarak Bin Daina, Chief Executive, The Supreme Council for Environment, Bahrain
Nur Masripatin, Director General, Climate Change and National Focal Point for the Ozone Depleting Substances, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia
Ibrahim Jibril, Minister of State for Environment, Nigeria
Gina McCarthy, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, UNEP
Alberto D'Alotto, National Director for Global Affairs, Foreign Ministry, Argentina
Ghulam Mohammad Malikyar, Afghanistan
Xavier Sticker, Ambassador for the Environment, France
Miguel Arias Cañete, European Commissioner for Energy and Climate
From L-R: John Barkat, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Ombudsman; Rajani Ranjan Rashmi, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, India; Catherine McKenna, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Canada; Mohamed Mubarak Bin Daina, Chief Executive, The Supreme Council for Environment, Bahrain; Gina McCarthy, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Ibrahim Jibril, Minister of State for Environment, Nigeria; Nur Masripatin, Director General, Climate Change and National Focal Point for the Ozone Depleting Substances, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia; Alberto D'Alotto, National Director for Global Affairs, Foreign Ministry, Argentina; Miguel Arias Cañete, European Commissioner for Energy and Climate; Jorge Mariano Castro Sánchez Moreno, Vice Minister of Environmental Management, Ministry of Environment, Peru; and Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, UNEP
Jorge Mariano Castro Sánchez Moreno, Vice Minister of Environmental Management, Ministry of Environment, Peru
Obed Baloyi, South Africa
The Indian delegation
Simon Dieuseul Desras, Minister for the Environment, Haiti
Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico
Norbert Kurilla, State Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Slovak Republic
Vincent Biruta, Minister of Natural Resources, Rwanda
Rémi Allah Kouadio, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Côte d'Ivoire
Bautista Rojas Gómez, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Dominican Republic
Jesse Chacón, Ambassador of Venezuela in Austria
Analiza Rebuelta-Teh, the Philippines
Sydney Alexander Samuels Milson, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Guatemala
Ohn Winn, Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Myanmar
Kare Chawicha Debessa, State Minister of Environment, Ministry of Environment ad Forest, Ethiopia
Ali Mohamed Musa Tawer, Minister of State, Ministry of Tourism, Antiquities and Wildlife, Sudan
Rubén Armando Escalante Hasbún, El Salvador
Xiaozhi Song, China
From L-R: Gilbert Bankobeza, Ozone Secretariat; MOP 27 President Virginia Poter, Canada; Tina Birmpili, Executive Secretary, Ozone Secretariat; Megumi Seki, Ozone Secretariat; and Martha Leyva, Ozone Secretariat
Lars Andreas Lunde, State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment, Norway
Pierre Hele, Minister for the Environment, Cameroon
Abdullah Al Islam Jakob, Deputy Minister of Environment and Forests, Bangladesh
Hiroyuki Nishiura, Japan
Souleymane Diallo, Senegal
Judi Wakhungu, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Kenya
