Report on the Vienna Convention Trust Fund for Research and Systematic Observation Agenda Item 3b

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Report on the Vienna Convention Trust Fund
forResearch and SystematicObservationAgenda
Item 3(b)

• Megumi Seki, Ozone Secretariat

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Introduction

• Parties in Dec VII/2(8) requested the Ozone
  Secretariat to report on
• Operation
• Contributions
• Expenditures
• of the VC Trust Fund since its inception
• UNEP/OzL.Conv.8/5
• Further details on the activities under the Trust
  Fund WMO will report

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EstablishmentDecision VI/2Ozone-related
monitoring and research activities for the Vienna
Convention(COP6, Rome, November 2002)

• Paragraph 2
• To request UNEP/WMO to establish a fund for
  research and systematic observations in
  developing countries and CEIT

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Decision VI/2 (contd)

• 3. Urges voluntary contributions
• 4. Defines the aim of the fund
• support maintenance/calibration of the existing
  WMO GAW stations to address balanced global
  coverage
• possibly support other activities identified by
  the ORM for improving observation network and
  relevant research
• 5. Secretariat/WMO to inform Parties on
  institutional
• arrangements and to provide an annual report

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Operation

• The Trust Fund established in Feb 2003
• Extended to 31 Dec 2015 as requested in dec
  VII/2(2)
• Terms of Reference for the Fund
• MOU concluded between UNEP Oz Sec and WMO in Sep
  2005, approved by the Parties at COP7 in Dec 2005
• Maintenance and Calibration projects for GAW
  stations
• Research and Monitoring projects
• Annual invitation to contribute
• 2008 brochure

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Contributions

• The total funds received to date since the Trust
  Fund was established (2003)
• US 179,135
• Czech Rep, Estonia, Finland, Kazakhstan, South
  Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and UK
• Other in-kind contributions have also been
  received

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Expenditures

• US15,000 - Dobson Inter-Calibration Workshop,
  Egypt, 2004
• US16,100 - Brewer Calibration in Nepal and
  Indonesia
• Balance US148,035 - Further activities are being
  planned and organized

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The END

• Thank you