12 and 13 June 2015 The intersessional informal meeting on the feasibility and ways of managing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)

June 15, 2015

The intersessional informal meeting on the feasibility and ways of managing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) was held at the Vienna International Centre on 12 and 13 June 2015.

The meeting was attended by representatives of 17 parties; Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China, European Union, Japan, Kuwait, Federated States of Micronesia, Pakistan, Saint Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Switzerland, United States of America and Zimbabwe, as well as the two co-chairs of the Open-ended Working Group and the representative of the United Arab Emirates as the host of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the Parties in 2015. The following parties were invited but were unable to attend: India, Mexico, South Africa and Uruguay.

Participants in the informal meeting discussed the challenges set out in annex II to the report of the thirty-fifth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group, focusing on some of the key issues for each challenge and on a number of overarching issues, which, it was agreed, would require a common understanding were HFCs to be addressed under the Montreal Protocol.