On the last day of the preparatory segment, delegates to the 34th Meeting of the Parties (MOP 34) to the Montreal Protocol primarily worked in contact groups. They sought to achieve as much progress as possible on issues ahead of the high-level segment, which will be held on Thursday and Friday.
Given the full agenda scheduled for the high-level segment, Open-Ended Working Group Co-Chair Martin Sirois (Canada) cautioned delegates that contact groups that want to continue meeting will need to make a convincing case they can complete their work. With ten groups established, including the budget committee, he also warned that the MOP might have to prioritize the work of some groups over others in the remaining days of the meeting.
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Following the suspension of plenary, delegates convened in a series of contact and informal groups, including on:
- Energy efficiency;
- Terms of Reference for the Multilateral Fund replenishment study;
- Hydrofluorocarbon baselines for Article 5 countries;
- The African States’ proposal on dumping of inefficient appliances;
- Institutional processes;
- Gaps in monitoring/carbon tetrachloride; and
- Stocks of methyl bromide and quarantine and pre-shipment uses.
Delegates reconvened in the late evening for a short plenary session. Co-Chair Sirois reported that all groups had requested more time and said that every group would be given at least one additional hour to work. He reiterated, however, that this would be the last hour available for at least some of the groups.
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Delegates traverse the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
Gilbert Bankobeza, Ozone Secretariat
Paul Krajnik, Austria
A bell calls delegates into plenary.
Alain Wilmart, Belgium
Agnieszka Truszczynska, EU
Morning meeting of the contact group on energy efficiency
Rev. Andrew Taylor of the Holy See at a contact group
Martin Sirois, OEWG Co-Chair, surveys the progress of a contact group.
Side event: Mainstreaming HFC Transitions in Ensuring Access to Cooling in India
Seated from left, Prima Madan, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Sanjay Seth, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Zerin Osho, Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD), Mehul Jain, World Bank, Andrea Voigt, Executive Member, UNEP Cool Coalition, Alex Hillbrand, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and standing Ashish Saraswat, The Energy and Resources Institute TERI
Prima Madan, NRDC
Ashish Saraswat, TERI, and Zerin Osho, IGSD
Andrea Voigt, UNEP Cool Coalition, and Alex Hillbrand, NRDC
Sanjay Seth, TERI
Prima Madan, NRDC, Sanjay Seth, TERI, and Zerin Osho, IGSD
Ashish Saraswat, TERI
Side event: Adding Nitrous Oxide to the Montreal Protocol
David Kanter, International Nitrogen Initiative
Valerie Fajardo, Advisor, Federated States of Micronesia
Ian Porter, La Trobe University
Side event: Climate Intervention and Stratospheric Ozone
Scientific Assessment Panel (SAP) Co-Chairs Bonfils Safari, Rwanda, Paul Newman, US, John Pyle, UK, and David Fahey, US
David Fahey, SAP Co-Chair, US
John Pyle, SAP Co-Chair, UK
Bonfils Safari, SAP Co-Chair, Rwanda
Around the venue
Plenary sits empty as delegates spent most of the day in contact groups.
Delegates confer in the warm Montreal sunlight.
Some delegates confer while contact groups meet.
