Meetings and Dates:

Combined thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP13) and the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MOP36), combined meeting of the Bureau of the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP12) and the Thirty-Fifth Meeting of the Parties, and the seventy-third meeting of the Implementation Committee (ImpCom73) will be convened in-person in Bangkok, Thailand as follows: 

• COP12/MOP35 Bureau – 25 October 2024
• ImpCom73 – 25 October 2024
• Workshop on Life-cycle Refrigerant Management (LRM) – 27 October 2024
• COP13/MOP36  – 28 October-1 November 2024

 

Nominations for the Bureau of the thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention

Region	Position	Name	Party represented
Asia-Pacific States	President	Yaqoub Al-Matouq	Kuwait
Eastern European States	Vice-President	Liana Ghahramanyan	Armenia
Latin American and Caribbean States	Vice-President	Gilda María Torres	Paraguay
Western European and Other States	Vice-President	Sandrine Benard	Norway
African States	Rapporteur	Beatrice Odwong Atim	Uganda

Date of last update: 30 October 2024

 

Nominations for the Bureau of the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol

Region	Position	Name	Party represented
Latin American and Caribbean States	President	Kerryne James	Grenada
African States	Vice-President	Sylla Ndiaye Cheikh	Senegal
Asia-Pacific States	Vice-President	Wan Abdul Latiff Wan Jaffar	Malaysia
Western European and Other States	Vice-President	Alain Wilmart	Belgium
Eastern European States	Rapporteur	Claudia Dumitru	Romania

Date of last update: 30 October 2024

 

Nominations for Membership of the Implementation Committee under the Non-Compliance Procedure for the Montreal Protocol

Region	Party nominated
African States	Benin
Asia-Pacific States	Saudi Arabia
Eastern European States	Montenegro
Latin American and Caribbean States	Dominican Republic
Western European and Other States	Netherlands

Date of last update: 30 October 2024

 

Officers of the Implementation Committee selected by Members

Position	Name	Party represented
President	Martijn Hildebrand	Netherlands
Vice-President and Rapporteur	Linda Kosgei	Kenya

Date of last update: 30 October 2024

 

Selected Members of the Executive Committee for the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol

Group		Parties selected
Article 5 parties	African States	Lesotho
	African States	Togo
	Asia-Pacific States	Bahrain
	Asia-Pacific States	China
	Latin American and Caribbean States	Argentina
	Latin American and Caribbean States	Cuba
	Eastern Europe and Central Asia region (seat that rotates among the regions in accordance with decision XVI/38)	Kyrgyzstan
non-Article 5 parties		Belgium
		Canada
		Italy
		Japan
		Lithuania
		Sweden
		United States of America

Date of last update: 1 November 2024

 

Chair and Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol

Group	Position	Name	Party represented
Non-Article 5 parties	Chair	Alessandro Giuliano Peru	Italy
Article 5 parties	Vice-Chair	Mathatela Ntsatsi	Lesotho

Date of last update: 1 November 2024

 

Selection of the Co-Chairs for the Open-ended Working Group for 2025

Group	Name	Party represented
Article 5 parties	Shontelle Wellington	Barbados
Non-Article 5 parties	Annie Gabriel	Australia

Date of last update: 30 October 2024

 

WiFi access (participants/general)

Name: COP13-MOP36

Password: COPMOP@2024

 

Venue:

United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC)
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
United Nations Building
RajadamnernNok Avenue
Bangkok 10200
Thailand
www.unescap.org/uncc

 

Meeting rooms

To reserve rooms for regional and bilateral meetings before the start of the meetings, kindly send an email to the Secretariat (Esther.Nginyo [at] un.org (Esther[dot]Nginyo[at]un[dot]org)

with a copy to Sandeep.Bhambra [at] un.org (Sandeep[dot]Bhambra[at]un[dot]org)) indicating the date, time, duration and number of participants.

Owing to the limited availability of rooms at UNCC, the Secretariat may not be able to fulfil all requests.

Requests to reserve rooms once the meetings have started should be made to the Conference Officer, Ms. Sukanya Konkaew (sukanya.konkaew [at] un.org (sukanya[dot]konkaew[at]un[dot]org))

 

Greening our meetings:

As part of our Environmental Management System, the Secretariat is committed to making its meetings as green and sustainable as possible. Participants can support this, among others, by:

• Bringing and utilising reusable water bottles during the meeting
• Bringing and reusing lanyards
   

For more information, see the ‘Green travel and event tips’ under ‘Greening our meetings’.

 

Side events and exhibitions:

The deadline for submission of applications was Friday, 20 September 2024. The online submission process is now closed and only applications submitted by 20 September will be considered. 

It is anticipated that the COP13/MOP36 will be a very busy meeting. Please note, the Secretariat reserves the right to alter bookings, or potentially cancel side events, in consultation with the organisers, to accommodate contact groups and regional groups, if necessary.

 

Delegate statements:

Parties are requested to submit their statements in advance by email to Jacqueline Nyanjui (jacqueline.nyanjui [at] un.org (jacqueline[dot]nyanjui[at]un[dot]org)) by close of business on Wednesday, 30 October 2024. The order in which statements are delivered will be determined by the date and time of their submission.
 

Credentials of parties’ representatives

Rule 18 of the rules of procedure for meetings of the parties to the Montreal Protocol provides that the credentials of representatives and the names of alternate representatives and advisers are to be submitted to the Executive Secretary of the meeting, if possible, no later than twenty hours after the opening of the meeting. Any later change in the composition of a delegation is also to be submitted to the Executive Secretary. Accordingly, credentials are required for participation and should be issued either by the Head of State or Government or by the Minister of Foreign Affairs or, in the case of a regional economic integration organization, by the competent authority of that organization. The Secretariat invites parties to submit an electronic copy of their credentials in advance of the meeting, preferably by 21 October 2024 to facilitate the process of reviewing these credentials. Parties should submit the signed and scanned credentials by email to Pablo Moscoso de la Cuba (pablo.moscosodelacuba [at] un.org (pablo[dot]moscosodelacuba[at]un[dot]org)) with a copy to Jacqueline Nyanjui (jacqueline.nyanjui [at] un.org (jacqueline[dot]nyanjui[at]un[dot]org)). Representatives are urged to come to COP13/MOP36 with original credentials duly signed by the Head of State or Government or by a Minister of Foreign Affairs or, in the case of a regional economic integration organization, by the competent authority of that organization and to submit them to the Secretariat as soon as possible after the start of the meeting.  In accordance with rule 19, the officers of the meeting shall thereafter examine the credentials and submit their report to the meeting.

 

ENB coverage

ENB coverage of the meeting is available here.

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