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Twentieth Meeting of the Parties to
the Montreal Protocol and Eighth Meeting
of the Conference of
the Parties to the
Vienna Convention
16-20 November 2008 | Doha, Qatar
Highlights for Thursday, 20 November 2008
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COP-8 to the Vienna Convention and MOP-20 to the Montreal Protocol convened for its final day in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday, 20 November, 2008.
In the morning, delegates convened in plenary to consider outstanding issues from the preparatory segment, and agreed to forward several administrative decisions to the high level segment for adoption.
Later in the morning delegates returned to the high level segment and heard statements by heads of delegations.
Contact groups on methyl bromide, replenishment, and essential use MDIs and campaign production convened throughout the day to complete their work.
At 5:00 pm delegates reconvened in plenary and resumed the preparatory segment, and agreed to forward decisions on essential uses, methyl bromide and replenishment to the high level segment.
Delegates convened in the high level segment at 6:00 pm and adopted over 20 decisions. These included a decision for the replenishment of the Multilateral Fund for the triennium 2009-2011 for a total of US$490 million and the Doha Declaration.
MOP-20 President Róbert Tóth, Hungary, thanked delegates for their hard work and said he looked forward to meeting delegates again in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in 2009 for MOP 21. He gavelled the meeting to a close at 7:37 pm. |
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| Vincenza Galatone, Canada, agreed that the Doha Declaration required further discussion. |
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| Delegates taking a break from the session. |
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| L-R: Steve Gorman, World Bank; Sawado Salifou, Minister for Environment, Burkina Faso; and Rajendra Shende, UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics. |
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| The ENB team in Doha, L-R: Robynne Boyd, USA; Hal Kane, USA; Asmita Bhardwaj, India; and Melanie Ashton, Australia. |
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UNEP resources
 Meeting website
Information for participants
Annotated agenda
Meeting documents
UNEP OzonAction Programme
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of MOP-19, 17-21 September 2007, Montreal, Canada
IISD RS summary report of the Twenty-sixth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG-26) of the parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, 3-6 July 2006, Montreal, Canada (English: HTML - PDF) (Spanish: HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of MOP-18, Delhi, India, 30 October - 3 November 2006
IISD RS coverage of MOP-17 and COP-7, 12-16 December 2005, Dakar, Senegal
IISD RS coverage of MOP-16, 22-26 November 2004, Prague, Czech Republic
IISD RS climate and atmosphere page
Climate-l - A news and announcement list on climate change news and policy developments
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
MEA Bulletin - Newsletter on key MEAs and their secretariats
African Regional Coverage
Climate Change Policy & Practice - News and information on the actions of international organizations in responding to the problem of global climate change
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