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 Friday, considering the following agenda items:
- Global emissions of the ozone depleting substance trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11);
- Data reporting issues under the Kigali Amendment;
- Progress on future availability of halons and their alternatives;
- Development and availability of laboratory and analytical procedures that can be performed without using controlled substances under the Protocol;
- Process agents;
- Organizational and other matters relating to the work of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP);
- Senior expert nominations from parties to the TEAP;
- Composition and balance of the TEAP;
- Eligibility for financial and technical assistance; and
- Proposed adjustments to the Montreal Protocol.
Informal consultations took place throughout the day, and several contact groups convened into the evening, where delegates discussed:
- ways to address unexpected emissions of CFC-11;
- destruction of technologies;
- linkages between hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in transitioning to low global warming potential alternatives; and
- energy efficiency while phasing down HFCs.
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Plenary Session
OEWG 40 Co-Chair Yaqoub Al-Matouq, Kuwait, and Megumi Seki, Ozone Secretariat
Tumau Herownna Neru, Samoa
Phillipa Guthrey, New Zealand
Laura Juliana Arciniegas, Colombia
Yawo Dandjesso, Togo
Atsushi Iwasaki, Japan
Paul Krajnik, EU
Avipsa Mahapatra, Environmental Investigation Agency
View of the dais during the plenary session
Osvaldo Patricio Álvarez Pérez, Chile
Al-Bokwali Abdulghani, Yemen
Patricia Soares Leite, Brazil
Emma Rachmawaty, Indonesia
OEWG 40 Co-Chair Cindy Newberg, US
Megumi Seki, and Martha Leyva, Ozone Secretariat
OEWG 40 Co-Chairs Cindy Newberg, US, and Yaqoub Al-Matouq, Kuwait
Hamoud Al-Otaibi, and Taha Mohammed Zatari, Saudi Arabia
Raad Kadhum Hasan, Iraq
Ravinder Kumar Mehta, India
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
Diane McConkey, US
Patrick McInerney, Australia
Radhey Agarwal, India
Contact group on CFC-11
Augustin Sánchez Guevara, Mexico, and Annie Gabriel, Australia
Salome Margaret Molefe, South Africa
Ana Maria Kleymeyer, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)
Ibrahima Kane, Senegal
Between Sessions
Annie Gabriel, Australia, and John Thompson, US
Philip Owen, EU, and Sergey Vasiliev, the Russian Federation
Samuel Pare, Burkina Faso, and Andrew Clark, US
Ian Porter, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP)
Multilateral Fund delegates in discussions