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Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer’s contribution towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals
Introduction
The Executive Secretary of the Secretariat for the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (Vienna Convention) and for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol) in full consultation with the Presidents of the Thirty-First Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MOP) – Hon. Martin Alvin Da Breo, Minister of Climate Resilience, the Environment, Forestry, Fisheries, Disaster Management and Information of Grenada - and the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention (COP) – Mr. Marc D’Iorio, Director General, Environment and Climate Change Canada – submits this report to the 2020 High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), in response to the invitation from the President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, H.E. Ms. Mona Juul.
The report is structured around the annexes to the invitation letter and attempts to provide a focused input on how best to accelerate action and achieve transformative pathways so as to realise the decade of action and delivery for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The input focuses on one of the core areas of responsibility of the COP and the MOP, namely protection of the atmosphere. It also provides some information on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to which the ozone treaties contribute and proposes some action points for consideration by the HLPF..
