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National Focal Points to the Montevideo Programme V

The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) is the world's highest-level decision-making body on the environment. In its resolution 2/19, UNEA invited Member States to designate national focal points for exchanging information and building capacities to collaborate with and guide the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in strengthening the Montevideo Environmental Law Programme, as well as for monitoring and evaluating its implementation.

Additionally, in its resolution 4/20 of 15 March 2019, UNEA adopted the fifth edition of the Programme and also invited Member States that had not yet done so to designate national focal points. UNEP, as the secretariat of the Programme, maintains a current list of national focal points (available below). Countries can designate a national focal point or update their contact information by sending a formal notification to the secretariat via e-mail (unep-montevideo@un.org).

List of National Focal Points:

	Country	Name	Organization	Contact
1.	Afghanistan	Mr. Idrees Malyar	National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA)	Contact
2.	Algeria	Mr. Soualem Lazhar	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
3.	Angola	Dr. Miranda Cândido Kiala	Minisry of Environment	Contact
4.	Antigua and Barbuda	Ms. Nneka Nicholas	Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment	Contact
5.	Antigua and Barbuda	Senator Maureen Hyman-Payne	Ministry of Legal Affairs, National Security and Labour	Contact
6.	Argentina	Ms. Corina Beatriz Lehmann	Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, Argentina	Contact
7.	Armenia	Mr. Arsen Nikoyan	Ministry of Environment	Contact
8.	Australia	Mr Aran Hirsch	Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment	Contact
9.	Australia	Mr Matthew Sielski	Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment	Contact
10.	Australia	Ms Fleur Downard	Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment	Contact
11.	Austria	Ms. Elfriede-Anna MORE	Federal Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology	Contact
12.	Bahrain	Mr. Hassan Hassan AlEtaibi	Supreme Council for Environment	Contact
13.	Bangladesh	Mr. Mohammad Abdul Wadud Chowdhury	Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change	Contact
14.	Barbados	Mr. Charley Browne	Ministry of Environment and National Beautification	Contact
15.	Barbados	Mr. Travis Sinckler	Ministry of Environment and National Beautification	Contact
16.	Barbados	Ms. Nicole Scholar-Tasker	Ministry of Environment and National Beautification	Contact
17.	Belarus	Mr. Baliaslau Pirshtuk	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection	Contact
18.	Belgium	Mrs. Leen Chanet	Government of Flanders	Contact
19.	Benin	Ms. Marianne Pulcherie Sessito Donoumassou Simeon	Ministère du Cadre de Vie et du Developpement Durable	Contact
20.	Bhutan	Ms. Kunzang	National Environment Commision, Royal Government of Bhutan	Contact
21.	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	Mr. Ronald Jorge Veliz	Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Agua, La Paz	Contact
22.	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Ms. Azra Rogović-Grubić	Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations	Contact
23.	Brazil	Mr. Luiz Eduardo Andrade de Suza	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
24.	Burkina Faso	Mr. Gontran Some	Ministry of Environment, Green Economy and Climate Change	Contact
25.	Burundi	Mr. Willy Ndayikeza	Ministry of Water Environment, Land and Urban Planning	Contact
26.	Cabo Verde	Mr. José Paulo Pinto	Ministry of Agriculture and Environment	Contact
27.	Cambodia	H.E. Dr. Monyneath Vann	Ministry of Environment, Cambodia	Contact
28.	Cameroon	Mr. Jean Kenfack	Ministry of Environment, Protection of Nature and Sustainable Development	Contact
29.	Canada	Mr. Richard G. Tarasofsky	Global Affairs Canada	Contact
30.	Chad	Mr. Kemba Kya Dambil	Ministry of Agriculture and Environment	Contact
31.	Chile	Mr. Emilio Yáñez Bravo	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
32.	Chile	Mr. Robert Currie	Ministry of Environment	Contact
33.	China	Dr. LIU Guozhi (Ms.) 刘国智	Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China	Contact
34.	Colombia	Ms. Faryde Carlier González	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
35.	Colombia	Ms. María Fernanda Vélez	Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development	Contact
36.	Comoros	Mr. Fouad Issoufa Ali	National Agency for Civil Aviation and meteorology (ANACM) in the Comoros	Contact
37.	Congo	Mrs. Makanga née Debolo Vouala Judicaëlle Audrey	Direction Generale de l'Environnement	Contact
38.	Costa Rica	Ms. Ivonne Montero	Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía (MINAE)	Contact
39.	Côte d'Ivoire	Mr. Eugene Zagre	Ministere de l'Environnement et du Developpement Durable	Contact
40.	Croatia	Mr. Igor Vuković	Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development	Contact
41.	Cuba	Ms. Yuraiky Seoane Puig	Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio, Cuba	Contact
42.	Czechia	Ms. Eva Adamova	Ministry of the Environment	Contact
43.	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Mrs. Maribe Nsompo Mujinga	Ministry of Environment Conservation and Nature and Sustainable Development	Contact
44.	Dominican Republic	Mr. Edilio Florian	Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources	Contact
45.	Dominican Republic	Ms. Rosa Haydee Otero Nieves		Contact
46.	Ecuador	Patricia Fernanda MlÑO-VARGAS	Ministry of Environment	Contact
47.	Ecuador	Sra. Verónica Vanessa PAZMIÑO	Ministry of Environment	Contact
48.	Egypt	HE Ambassador Mohamed Nasr	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
49.	El Salvador	Ms. Ana Regina Meléndez de Romero	Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources	Contact
50.	Estonia	Ms. Aire Rihe	Ministry of Environment	Contact
51.	Estonia	Ms. Annemari Vene	Ministry of Environment	Contact
52.	Ethiopia	Dr. Ayele Hegena Anabo	Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change	Contact
53.	European Union*	Ms. Rasa Ščeponavičiūtė	European Union	Contact
54.	Fiji	Mr. Joshua Wycliffe	Ministry of Environment	Contact
55.	Fiji	Ms. Sandeep Singh	Ministry of Environment	Contact
56.	Finland	Ms. Charlotta von Troil	Ministry of the Environment	Contact
57.	France	Hugo Lequertier	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
58.	Gabon	Mr. Jean-Christian MOUELE LOUNDO	Ministere des Eaux, des Forêt de la Mer de I'Environnement, chargé du Plan Climat et du PIan d'Affectation des Terres	Contact
59.	Georgia	Ms. Nana Totibadze	Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture of Georgia	Contact
60.	Germany	Mr. Christian Lindemann	Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection	Contact
61.	Ghana	Ms. Abena Ayensu	Ministry of Environment, Environment Protection Agency	Contact
62.	Greece	Ms. Katerina Skouria	Ministry of Environment	Contact
63.	Greece	Ms. Stamouli Evangelia	Ministry of Environment	Contact
64.	Guatemala	Ms. Gabriela Iveth Villatoro San Juan	Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de Guatemala	Contact
65.	Guatemala	Ms. Ruth Liliana Lopez Salazar	Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de Guatemala	Contact
66.	Guinea	Mr. Paul Traore	Ministère de l'Environnement et du developpement durable	Contact
67.	Guinea	Ms. Mariama Diallo	Ministere de l'environnement et du developpement durable	Contact
68.	Guinea-Bissau	M. Welena da Silva	Ministerio do Ambiente e Biodiversidad	Contact
69.	Guyana	Mr. Khemraj Parsram	Environment Protection Agency	Contact
70.	Guyana	Ms Frances Carryl	Environment Protection Agency	Contact
71.	Haiti	Mr. Junior Augustin Jean Philippe	Ministry of Environment	Contact
72.	Honduras	Mr. Narciso Manzanares	Secretaria de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente (MiAmbiente+)	Contact
73.	Honduras	Ms. Diana Sequeira	Secretaria de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente (MiAmbiente+)	Contact
74.	Hungary	Mr. András Guti	Ministry of Agriculture	Contact
75.	Hungary	Ms. Maria Galambos	Ministry of Agriculture	Contact
76.	Indonesia	Mr. Rasio Ridho Sani	Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia	Contact
77.	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Ms. Akram Mirzakhani	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
78.	Iraq	Mr. Tallal Badr Abdullah	Ministry of Health and Environment	Contact
79.	Israel	Ms. Dalit Dror	Ministry of Environmental Protection	Contact
80.	Italy	Mr. Cristiano Piacente	Ministry of Environment	Contact
81.	Jamaica	Ms. Morjorn Wallock	National Environment & Planning Agency	Contact
82.	Japan	NAKAHARA Issei (Mr.)	Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan	Contact
83.	Jordan	Mr. Mohammad Al-Agha	Ministry of Environment	Contact
84.	Kazakhstan	Mr. Akhmedjan Primkulov	Ministry of Environment, Geology and Natural Resources	Contact
85.	Kenya	Ms. Annie Syombua David	Ministry of Environment & Forestry	Contact
86.	Kiribati	Mrs. Nenenteiti. Teariki-Ruatu	Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development (MELAD)	Contact
87.	Kuwait	Ms. Nouf Bahbahani	Environment Public Authority	Contact
88.	Kyrgyzstan	Mr. Sadykov Kanatbek Rakhmanberdievich		Contact
89.	Latvia	Mrs. Kristīne Kazerovska		Contact
90.	Lebanon	Judge Nazek Al-Khatib	Ministry of Justice, Lebanon	Contact
91.	Lesotho	Ms. Makhiba Tjela	Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Culture	Contact
92.	Liechtenstein	Ms. Heike Summer	Office for Environment	Contact
93.	Lithuania	Ms. Gintarė Izokaitytė	Ministry of Environment	Contact
94.	Madagascar	Mr. Ratsimisaraka Thelesphone		Contact
95.	Malawi	Mr. Chifundo Chinyama	Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining	Contact
96.	Maldives	Ms. Fazeela Ahmed Shaheem	Ministry of Environment and Energy	Contact
97.	Mauritania	Mr. BA Moussa	Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development	Contact
98.	Mauritius	Mrs. Najiyah Dauharry-Jeewa	Attorney General's Office	Contact
99.	Mexico	Lic. José Rubén Jiménez Pineda	Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales	Contact
100.	Micronesia (Federated States of)	Mr. Andrew Yatilman	FSM Office of Environment and Emergency Management (OoEEM)	Contact
101.	Monaco	Prof. Alain PIQUEMAL	Ministère d'Etat	Contact
102.	Mongolia	Mr. Radnaabazar Chadraabal	Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Mongolia	Contact
103.	Mongolia	Ms. Ariuntuya Dorjsuren	Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Mongolia	Contact
104.	Montenegro	Ms. Suzana Otasevic	Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism	Contact
105.	Morocco	Mr. Mohammed Baraoui	Sustainable Development Department	Contact
106.	Mozambique	Mr. André Fenias Nhaca	Ministry of Land and Environment	Contact
107.	Myanmar	Mr. Kyaw San Naing	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation	Contact
108.	Namibia	Ms. Betty Schroder	Ministry of Environment and Tourism	Contact
109.	Nepal	Mr. Man Bahadur Basnet	Ministry of Forests and Environment	Contact
110.	Netherlands	Ms. Gudi Alkemade	Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands	Contact
111.	New Zealand	Liese Galvin	Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Manatū Aorere, New Zealand	Contact
112.	Nigeria	Mr. Ibrahim Musa Mohammed Esq.	National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency	Contact
113.	Norway	Ms. Linda Lund	Ministry of Climate and Environment	Contact
114.	Pakistan	Mr. Saeed Ashraf Siddiqi	Ministry of Climate Change	Contact
115.	Panama	Ms. Jenny Villarreal Jaramillo	Ministerio de Ambiente	Contact
116.	Paraguay	Mr. Hugo Cardozo	Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development	Contact
117.	Paraguay	Ms. Maria Laura Bobadilla Diaz	Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development	Contact
118.	Peru	Mr. James Morales	Ministry of Environment	Contact
119.	Philippines	Atty. Mr. Norlito A. Eneran	Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)	Contact
120.	Poland	Ms. Edyta Sysło	Ministry of Climate and Environment	Contact
121.	Portugal	Mr. Peter Pitrez	General Secretariat of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Action	Contact
122.	Portugal	Mrs. Águeda Silva	Portuguese Environment Agency (APA)	Contact
123.	Qatar	Mr. Metab Ali Metab Al Kubaisi	Ministry of Municipality and Environment	Contact
124.	Republic of Korea	Mr. Suk-tae Hwang	Ministry of Environment	Contact
125.	Romania	Mrs. Gabriela Dorojan	Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests	Contact
126.	Romania	Mrs. Maria-Claudia Aaron-Andrieș	MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, WATERS AND FORESTS	Contact
127.	Saint Lucia	Ms. Kate Wilson	Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development	Contact
128.	Samoa	Ms. Shirley Malielegaoi	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Samoa	Contact
129.	Sao Tome and Principe	Mr. Mateus Ferreira		Contact
130.	Saudi Arabia	H.H. Prince Khaled Ben Saud Ben Khaled	The General Authority of Meteorology and Environmental Protection	Contact
131.	Senegal	Ms. Khadidiatou Drame	Ministère de l'environnement et du développement durable	Contact
132.	Seychelles	Ms. Sharon Gerry	Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change	Contact
133.	Sierra Leone	Mr. Gibrilla Kamara	Environment Protection Agency	Contact
134.	Singapore	Mr. Hazri Hassan	Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment	Contact
135.	Singapore	Mr. Mansoor Amir	Attorney-General's Chambers	Contact
136.	Singapore	Ms. Cheryl Leem	Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment	Contact
137.	Slovakia	Mr. Matej Opatíc	Ministry of Environment	Contact
138.	Slovenia	Ms. Helena Kramar	Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning	Contact
139.	Solomon Islands	Mr. Joe Horokou	Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology, Solomon Islands	Contact
140.	Somalia	Mr. Mohamud Mohamed Khadar	Ministry of Environment and Climate Change	Contact
141.	South Africa	Mr Sibusiso Kobese	Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment	Contact
142.	Sri Lanka	Dr. Anil Jasinghe	Ministry of Environment	Contact
143.	Sudan	Mr. Salem Younus Idris Ahmed	Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources (HCENR)	Contact
144.	Suriname	Mrs. Meredith Henry-Cumberbatch	Ministry of Spatial Planning and Environment	Contact
145.	Eswatini	Mr. Sifiso Nkosinathi Dlamini	Swaziland Environment Authority	Contact
146.	Sweden	Mr. Staffan Löwhagen	Ministry of Environment	Contact
147.	Switzerland	Dr. Sebastian Konig	Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Bern, Switzerland	Contact
148.	Switzerland	Mr. Vincent Bohnenblust	Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications DETEC	Contact
149.	Syrian Arab Republic	Eng. Iman Blal	Ministry of Local Administration and Environment	Contact
150.	Thailand	Mr. Athapol Chroenshunsa	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE)	Contact
151.	Thailand	Mr. Chanan Tiranarat	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment	Contact
152.	North Macedonia	Ms. Frosina Antonovska	Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning	Contact
153.	Timor-Leste	Mr. Carlos Lopes Ximenes	Secretariat of State for Environment	Contact
154.	Togo	Ms. Kayi Obidon Emefa AJAVON	Ministère de l'environnement et des ressources forestières	Contact
155.	Trinidad and Tobago	Mr. Maurice Wishart	Enviornmental Management Authority	Contact
156.	Türkiye	Ms. Cansu Cevher		Contact
157.	Uganda	Mr. Henry Bbosa	International Relations	Contact
158.	Uganda	Ms. Sarah Naigaga		Contact
159.	Ukraine	Mr.Roman Shakhmatenko	Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources	Contact
160.	United Arab Emirates	Dr. Nasir Mohammed Sultan	Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment	Contact
161.	United Arab Emirates	Mrs. Duha Abdullah AlMulla	Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment	Contact
162.	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Ms. Eva Huehne	Government Legal Department	Contact
163.	United Republic of Tanzania	Mr. Andrew Marcelin Komba	Vice Presidents Office	Contact
164.	United States of America	Mr. Tim Epp	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency	Contact
165.	Uruguay	Mr. Marcelo J. Cousillas	Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Montevideo, Paraguay	Contact
166.	Uzbekistan	Mr. Bobur Muhamedov	State Committee on Ecology and Environmental Protection	Contact
167.	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	Mr. Miguel Serrano	Oficina de Integración y Asuntos Internacionales	Contact
168.	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	Mrs. Ada Carolina Fernandez Urdaneta	Ministry of People's Power for Ecosocialism	Contact
169.	Viet Nam	Mr. Phan Tuan Hung	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE)	Contact
170.	Zambia	Ms. Karen Banda	Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA)	Contact
171.	Zimbabwe	Mr. Farai Nyahwa	Environmental Management Agency	Contact