Summary
Delegates to the fortieth meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (OEWG 40) continued their deliberations on Thursday, considering the following agenda items:
- TEAP Report on energy efficiency in the refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump (RACHP) sectors as well as the key messages from the workshop on energy efficiency opportunities while phasing down HFCs;
- Requirements for HCFCs for 2020 to 2030 for non-Article 5; and
- Global Emissions of CFC-11.
Some of these discussions continued in informal consultations in the evening.
Two contact groups, tasked to reach agreement on details needed for the implementation of the Kigali Amendment, met throughout the day, focusing on clarifying data reporting issues and approving destruction technologies for HFCs. A third contact group, on linkages between HCFCs and HFCs in transitioning to low global warming potential (GWP) alternatives, met in the evening.
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Plenary Session
View of the dais during the plenary session
OEWG 40 Co-Chair Cindy Newberg, US
OEWG 40 Co-Chair Yaqoub Al-Matouq, Kuwait
Bella Maranion, Fabio Polonara, and Suely Carvalho, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP)
Obed Baloyi, South Africa
Nora Al-Otaibi, Saudi Arabia
Wenfu Dong, China
Cheikh Ndiaye Sylla, Senegal
Samuel Pare, Burkina Faso
Philippe Chemouny, Canada
Annie Gabriel, Australia
From L-R: Amna Kazim, UAE; Saad Aldeen AlNumairy, UAE; and Hassan Ali Mubarak, Bahrain
Laura Juliana Arciniegas, Colombia
Kujabi Abubacarr, the Gambia
Hassan Ali Mubarak, Bahrain
Laura Berón, Argentina
Contact Group on Data Reporting Under Article 7 and Related Issues
From L-R: Zhong Zhifeng, China; Martin Sirois, Canada; and Gerald Mutisya, Ozone Secretariat
Cornelius Rhein, EU
Tom Land, US
Radhey Agarwal, India
View of the room during the Contact Group
Contact Group on Destruction Technologies
Bitul Zulhasni, Indonesia, and Ralph Brieskorn, the Netherlands
Cornelius Rhein, EU, with Husamuddin Ahmadzai, Sweden
Augustin Sánchez Guevara, Mexico
Helen Walter-Terrinoni, TEAP
View of the room during the Contact Group
Contact group on HCFCs and HFCs linkages
Philippe Chemouny, Canada, and Obed Baloyi, South Africa
Philip Owen, and Cornelius Rhein, EU
Taha Mohammed Zatari, Saudi Arabia
Ana Maria Kleymeyer, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)
John Thompson, US
Between Sessions
John Thompson, US, with Taha Mohammed Zatari, Saudi Arabia
Gerald Mutisya, Ozone Secretariat, and Cornelius Rhein, EU
Nadia Sohier Zaman, IISD, and Kevin Mead, Canada
Participants during the lunch break
