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19th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol
(MOP-19)
17-21 September 2007
Montreal, Canada |
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| Highlights from Wednesday, 19 September |
| Executive Secretary Marco Gonzalez, Stephen Anderson, US, K. Madhava Sarma, former Ozone Executive Secretary, and Kristin Taddonio, US, during the book launch for "Techonology Transfer for the Ozone Layer: Lessons for Climate Change." |
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| Plenary: Preparatory Segment |
| Ozone Secretariat Executive Secretary Marco Gonzalez and Preparatory Segment Co-Chairs Marcia Levaggi and Mikkel Sorensen |
| Deputy Executive Secreatary Paul Horwitz (left) calls attention to UNEP's magazine Our Planet, which is dedicated to the Montreal Protocol this month; Implementation Committee President Robyn Washbourne, New Zealand (right), presented draft decisions on, inter alia : non-compliance; data reporting; establishment of licensing systems; and reporting of CFC production. |
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| Compliance and data reporting: Tom Land, US (left), stressed that prior decisions “urging” parties to report do not entail obligations; Marcus Wandinger, European Commission, for the EU (right), said reporting promotes implementation. |
| Preparatory Segment Co-Chairs Marcia Levaggi and Mikkel Sorensen, Executive Secretary Marco Gonzalez, Kristin Taddonio, US, Rejendra Shende, UNEP/DTIE, Mack McFarland, DuPont,
Stephen O. Andersen, US, and K. Madhava Sarma, former Ozone Executive Secretary launching two books: "Techonology Transfer for the Ozone Layer: Lessons for Climate Change" and "The Montreal Protocol: Celebrating 20 Years of Environmental Progress: Ozone Layer and Climate Protection." |
| Contact Group: CUN methyl bromide contact group |
| This group, chaired by Pierre Pinault, Canada, was open to parties only |
| Delegates in the hallway outside contact group meeting rooms |
David Doniger, NRDC, and ENB writer Bill McPherson, discusses methyl bromide inventories |
| Maas Goote, Netherlands, HCFCs contact group chair, Pierre Pinault, Canada, CUN contact group chair, and Claudia Paratori Cortes, Chile, who tabled a proposal requesting that the exemption of carbon tetrachloride for laboratory and analytical uses be extended to Article 5 countries. |
| Photos from the book launch |
| Durwood Zaelke,
Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development,
and Rejendra Shende, UNEP/DTIE (left), contributors to the book "The Montreal Protocol: Celebrating 20 Years of Environmental Progress: Ozone Layer and Climate Protection;" and Taddonio, Anderson, and Sarma with their book. |
| Authors signing books for adoring fans; matching ties that illustrate the earth and the ozone layer (right) |
| Durwood Zaelke, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, with Nick
Nuttall, UNEP Spokesperson (left), and
János Maté, Greenpeace, speaks with the press |
| Ozone posters exhibited throughout the conference center |
| Judith Unbescheidt, GTZ booth ; Live video stream from the International Space Station congratulating delegates on the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol |
| Le Palais des Congrès de Montréal, where the meeting is being held |
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