Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Parties (MOP) to the Montreal Protocol and Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Vienna Convention 17-21 November 2014 UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) headquarters, Paris, France. Highlights for Monday, 17 November 2014. The Preparatory Segment of the twenty-sixth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MOP26) and the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention (COP10) opened on Monday, 17 November 2014, in Paris, France. In the morning, delegates heard opening statements from dignitaries and discussed, inter alia: budgetary issues; extension of the trust funds and replenishment of the MLF. In the afternoon, delegates addressed essential-use exemptions (EUEs), critical-use exemptions (CUEs), a global exemption of controlled substances for laboratory and analytical uses, the availability of recovered, recycled or reclaimed halons, measures to facilitate the monitoring of trade in HCFCs and substituting substances, and the releases, breakdown products and opportunities for reduction of releases of ODS. The Budget Committee and the contact group on the MLF replenishment met during the day. iisd.ca/ozone/mop26/
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