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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.	Albania	Mr Sofjan Jaupaj	Ministry of Tourism and Environment	Contact
3.	Algeria	Mr. Soualem Lazhar	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
4.	Angola	Dr. Miranda Cândido Kiala	Ministry of Environment	Contact
5.	Antigua and Barbuda	Ms. Nneka Nicholas	Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs	Contact
6.	Antigua and Barbuda	Senator Maureen Hyman-Payne	Ministry of Legal Affairs, National Security and Labour	Contact
7.	Argentina	Mr. Francisco José Mozetic	Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto	Contact
8.	Argentina	Ms. Eliana Ester Saissac	Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto	Contact
9.	Armenia	Mr. Arsen Nikoyan	Ministry of Environment	Contact
10.	Australia	Ms. Ariana Magini	International Environment and UN Section, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water	Contact
11.	Australia	Ms. Fleur Downard	International Environment and UN Section, Department of Climate Change, the Environment and Water	Contact
12.	Austria	Ms. Elfriede-Anna More	Federal Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology	Contact
13.	Azerbaijan	Ms. Aysel Rzayeva	Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources	Contact
14.	Bahrain	Mr. Hassan Hassan Abdullah (AlEtaibi)	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
15.	Bangladesh	Mr. Mohammad Abdul Wadud Chowdhury	Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change	Contact
16.	Barbados	Mr. Travis Sinckler	Ministry of Environment and National Beautification	Contact
17.	Barbados	Mrs. Yolande Howard	Ministry of Environment and National Beautification	Contact
18.	Barbados	Ms. Nicole Scholar-Tasker	Ministry of Environment and National Beautification	Contact
19.	Belarus	Mr. Ivan Prykhodzka	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection	Contact
20.	Belgium	Mr. Mehdi Karimi	Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation	Contact
21.	Benin	Ms. Marianne Pulcherie Sessito Donoumassou Simeon	Ministère du Cadre de Vie et du Developpement Durable	Contact
22.	Bhutan	Mrs. Nima Om	Legal Division of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources	Contact
23.	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	Dr. Ever Tarquino Mamani	Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Agua, La Paz	Contact
24.	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	Ing. Victoria Coaquira Moruno		Contact
25.	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Ms. Azra Rogović-Grubić	Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations	Contact
26.	Brazil	Mr. Victor Campos Cirne	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
27.	Bulgaria	Ms. Bilyana Yordanova	Ministry of Environment and Water	Contact
28.	Burkina Faso	Mr. Gontran Some	Ministry of Environment, Water and Sanitation.	Contact
29.	Burundi	Mr. Willy Ndayikeza	Ministry of Water Environment, Land and Urban Planning	Contact
30.	Cabo Verde	Mr. José Paulo Pinto	Ministry of Agriculture and Environment	Contact
31.	Cambodia	H.E. Dr. Monyneath Vann	Ministry of Environment	Contact
32.	Cameroon	Mr. Jean Kenfack	Ministry of Environment, Protection of Nature and Sustainable Development	Contact
33.	Canada	Mr. Philip Lupul	Global Affairs Canada	Contact
34.	Chad	Mr. Kemba Kya Dambil	Ministry of Agriculture and Environment	Contact
35.	Chile	Ms. Macarena Sarras	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile	Contact
36.	Chile	Ms. Paula Fuentes	Ministry of the Environment of Chile	Contact
37.	China	Dr. LIU Guozhi (Ms.) 刘国智	Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China	Contact
38.	Colombia	Mr. Sergio Raul Chaparro Hernandez	Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development	Contact
39.	Colombia	Mrs. Ambassador Diana Patricia Mejía Molina	Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombia	Contact
40.	Comoros	Mr. Fouad Issoufa Ali	National Agency for Civil Aviation and meteorology (ANACM) in the Comoros	Contact
41.	Congo	Mrs. Makanga née Debolo Vouala Judicaëlle Audrey	Direction Generale de l'Environnement	Contact
42.	Costa Rica	Ms. Ana Lorena Polanco Morales	Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía (MINAE)	Contact
43.	Côte d'Ivoire	Mr. Eugene Zagre	Ministere de l'Environnement et du Developpement Durable la transition ecologique	Contact
44.	Croatia	Mr. Josip Kovilić	Ministry of Environmental Protection and Green Transition	Contact
45.	Cuba	Ms. Yuraiky Seoane Puig	Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio, Cuba	Contact
46.	Czechia	Ms. Eva Adamova	Ministry of the Environment	Contact
47.	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Mrs. Maribe Nsompo Mujinga	Ministry of Environment Conservation and Nature and Sustainable Development	Contact
48.	Dominican Republic	Ms. Marisol Castillo	Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources	Contact
49.	Dominican Republic	Ms. Rosa Haydee Otero Nieves	Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources	Contact
50.	Ecuador	Patricia Fernanda Miño-Vargas	Ministry of Environment	Contact
51.	Egypt	HE Ambassador Mohamed Nasr	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
52.	El Salvador	Mr. Rodrigo Silverio Henriquez Moreno	Ministerio De Medio Ambiente Y Recursos Naturales	Contact
53.	Estonia	Ms. Aire Rihe	Ministry of Climate	Contact
54.	Estonia	Ms. Annemari Vene	Ministry of Climate	Contact
55.	Ethiopia	Dr. Ayele Hegena Anabo	Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change	Contact
56.	European Union*	Ms. Rasa Ščeponavičiūtė	European Union	Contact
57.	Fiji	Dr. Sivendra Michael (Mr)	Ministry of Environment	Contact
58.	Fiji	Ms. Senimili Baleicakau	Ministry of Environment	Contact
59.	Finland	Ms. Charlotta von Troil	Ministry of the Environment	Contact
60.	France	Geoffroy Savet	Ambassade de France à Nairobi, Peponi Gardens	Contact
61.	France	Mme Chloé Godefroy	Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères	Contact
62.	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
63.	Gambia	Ms Reneta Rohey Jack	Ministry of Justice	Contact
64.	Georgia	Mr. Giorgi Pantskhava	Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture of Georgia	Contact
65.	Germany	Dr. Marcus Schroeder	Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, Strategic Aspects of International Cooperation, G7/G20, International Law, International Trade Law	Contact
66.	Ghana	Mr. Amos Sarfo Opuku	Environmental Protection Authority, Ministry of Environment, Accra Tel: 302 662465	Contact
67.	Greece	Ms. Katerina Skouria	Ministry of Environment	Contact
68.	Greece	Ms. Stamouli Evangelia	Ministry of Environment	Contact
69.	Guatemala	Ms. Heizell Chinchilla	Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de Guatemala	Contact
70.	Guatemala	Ms. Silvia Marisol Sandoval Alarcón	Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de Guatemala	Contact
71.	Guinea	Mr. Paul Traore	Ministère de l'Environnement et du developpement durable	Contact
72.	Guinea	Ms. Mariama Diallo	Ministere de l'environnement et du developpement durable	Contact
73.	Guinea-Bissau	M. Welena da Silva	Ministerio do Ambiente e Biodiversidad and Climatica	Contact
74.	Guyana	Mr. Khemraj Parsram	Environment Protection Agency	Contact
75.	Guyana	Ms Frances Carryl	Environment Protection Agency	Contact
76.	Haiti	Mr. Junior Augustin Jean Philippe	Ministry of Environment	Contact
77.	Honduras	Mr Melvin Ariel Madrid Rivas	Secretaria de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente (MiAmbiente+)	Contact
78.	Honduras	Mrs. Carol Karen Maldonado Zuniga	Secretaria de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente (MiAmbiente+)	Contact
79.	Hungary	Ms. Molnarne Maria Galambos	Ministry of Agriculture	Contact
80.	Indonesia	Mr. Rasio Ridho Sani	Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia	Contact
81.	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Dr. Seyed Mohammad Sadati Nejad	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
82.	Iraq	Dr. Tallal Badr Abdulla	Ministry of Environment	Contact
83.	Israel	Ms. Dalit Dror	Ministry of Environmental Protection	Contact
84.	Italy	Mr. Cristiano Piacente	Ministry of Environment	Contact
85.	Japan	Mr. Hiroyuki Chishiki	Ministry of Environment	Contact
86.	Japan	Ms. Abe Yukina	Ministry of Environment, Global Environment Bureau	Contact
87.	Japan	Ms. Mariko Kimura	Embassy of Japan in Kenya	Contact
88.	Jordan	Mr. Mohammad Al-Agha	Ministry of Environment	Contact
89.	Kazakhstan	Ms. Inkar Abzhali	Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan	Contact
90.	Kenya	Ms. Linah Meeme	Ministry of Environment, Climate Change & Forestry	Contact
91.	Kiribati	Mrs. Nenenteiti. Teariki-Ruatu	Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development (MELAD)	Contact
92.	Kuwait	Ms. Nouf Bahbahani	Environment Public Authority	Contact
93.	Kyrgyzstan	Ms. Asel Raimkulova	Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology and Technical Supervision	Contact
94.	Lao People's Democratic Republic	Mr. Bounpakone Phongphichit	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment	Contact
95.	Lao People's Democratic Republic	Ms. Phakkavanh Phissamay	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment	Contact
96.	Latvia	Mrs. Kristīne Kazerovska	Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development	Contact
97.	Lebanon	Judge Nazek Al-Khatib (Ms.)	Ministry of Justice, Lebanon	Contact
98.	Lesotho	Ms. Matseliso Machai-Ndumo	Ministry of Environment and Forestry	Contact
99.	Liberia	Ms. Salimatu Lamin-Gilayeneh	Energy & Environment Programme Coordinator and Legal Advisor	Contact
100.	Liechtenstein	Mr. Andreas Gsthöl	Office for Environment	Contact
101.	Lithuania	Mr. Roberts Bulkevičius	Ministry of Environment	Contact
102.	Madagascar	Ms. Rakotomavo Nathalie Rosette	Ministere de L'environnement et du Developpement Durable (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development)	Contact
103.	Madagascar	Ms. Ralivelo Lynah Fenohasambarana	Ministere de L'environnement et du Developpement Durable (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development)	Contact
104.	Malawi	Mr. Neverson Chisiza	Ministry of Justice in Malawi	Contact
105.	Maldives	Ms. Fazeela Ahmed Shaheem	Ministry of Climate Change, Environment and Energy	Contact
106.	Mauritania	Mr. BA Moussa	Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development	Contact
107.	Mauritius	Mrs. Najiyah Dauharry-Jeewa	Attorney General's Office	Contact
108.	Mexico	Lic. José Rubén Jiménez Pineda	Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales	Contact
109.	Micronesia (Federated States of)	Mr. Andrew Yatilman	FSM Office of Environment and Emergency Management (OoEEM)	Contact
110.	Monaco	Mr. Alain Piquemal	Ministère d'Etat	Contact
111.	Mongolia	Mr. Radnaabazar Chadraabal	Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Mongolia	Contact
112.	Mongolia	Ms. Ariuntuya Dorjsuren	Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Mongolia	Contact
113.	Montenegro	Ms. Suzana Otasevic	Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism	Contact
114.	Morocco	Mr. Mohammed Baraoui	Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development	Contact
115.	Morocco	Ms. Zineb Benmasoud	Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development	Contact
116.	Mozambique	Mr. André Fenias Nhaca	Ministry of Land and Environment	Contact
117.	Myanmar	Mr. Kyaw San Naing	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation	Contact
118.	Namibia	Ms. Betty Schroder	Ministry of Environment and Tourism	Contact
119.	Nepal	Mr. Bal Krishna Niraula	Ministry of Forests and Environment	Contact
120.	Netherlands	Ms. Gudi Alkemade	Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands	Contact
121.	New Zealand	Ms. Charlotte Skerten	Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Manatū Aorere, New Zealand	Contact
122.	Nicaragua	Mr. Uriel Morales Acuna	Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources	Contact
123.	Nigeria	Mr. Ibrahim Musa Mohammed Esq.	National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency	Contact
124.	Norway	Ms. Solveig Crompton	Ministry of Climate and Environment	Contact
125.	Pakistan	Mr. Muhammad Asif Sahibzada	Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination	Contact
126.	Pakistan	Mr. Muhammad Farooq	Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination	Contact
127.	Panama	Mr. Bolivar Canizalez	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact
128.	Peru	Mr. Héctor Daniel Benítez Castro	Ministry of Environment (MINAM)	Contact
129.	Peru	Mr. Mirbel Alberto Epiquién Rivera		Contact
130.	Philippines	Atty. Mr. Norlito A. Eneran	Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)	Contact
131.	Poland	Ms. Edyta Sysło	Ministry of Climate and Environment	Contact
132.	Portugal	Mr. Peter Pitrez	General Secretariat of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Action	Contact
133.	Portugal	Mrs. Águeda Silva	Portuguese Environment Agency (APA)	Contact
134.	Qatar	Mr. Metab Ali Metab Al Kubaisi	Ministry of Municipality and Environment	Contact
135.	Republic of Korea	Mr. Suk-tae Hwang	Ministry of Environment	Contact
136.	Romania	Mrs. Cristina Petrache	Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests	Contact
137.	Romania	Mrs. Maria-Claudia Aaron-Andrieș	MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, WATERS AND FORESTS	Contact
138.	Russian Federation	Ms Olga Zosimova	Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology	Contact
139.	Rwanda	Mr. Sangwa Erneste	Rwanda Environment Management Authority	Contact
140.	Saint Lucia	Mrs. Anita Montoute	Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Sustainable Development	Contact
141.	Samoa	Ms. Kathleen Taituave-Afereti	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Government of Samoa	Contact
142.	Sao Tome and Principe	Mr. Mateus Ferreira	Ministry of Infrastructure, Natural Resources and Environment	Contact
143.	Saudi Arabia	H.H. Prince Khaled Ben Saud Ben Khaled	The General Authority of Meteorology and Environmental Protection	Contact
144.	Senegal	Ms. Khadidiatou Drame	Ministère de l'environnement et du développement durable	Contact
145.	Seychelles	Ms. Sharon Gerry	Ministry of Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment	Contact
146.	Sierra Leone	Mr. Gibrilla Kamara	Environment Protection Agency	Contact
147.	Singapore	Mr Chng Yee Siang	Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment	Contact
148.	Singapore	Mr Marcus Chew	Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment	Contact
149.	Singapore	Mr. Moh Tiing Liang	International Policy Division	Contact
150.	Singapore	Mr. Ranjeet Singh	Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment	Contact
151.	Singapore	Ms. Kexian NG	Attorney-General's Chambers	Contact
152.	Slovakia	Ms. Petra Korbíniová	Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic	Contact
153.	Slovenia	Ms. Tanja Pucelj Vidović	Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy, Slovenia	Contact
154.	Solomon Islands	Mr. Joseph Hurutarau	Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology, Solomon Islands	Contact
155.	Somalia	Mr. Mohamud Mohamed Khadar	Ministry of Environment and Climate Change	Contact
156.	South Africa	Mr Sibusiso Kobese	Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment	Contact
157.	Spain	Mr. Antonio Nieto Magro	Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico	Contact
158.	Sri Lanka	Mr. B.K. Prabath Chandrakeerthi	Ministry of Environment	Contact
159.	Sudan	Mr. Salem Younus Idris Ahmed	The Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources (HCENR)	Contact
160.	Suriname	Mrs. Meredith Henry-Cumberbatch	Ministry of Spatial Planning and Environment	Contact
161.	Eswatini	Ms. Nonophile I. Mavuso	Ministry of Tourism and Environmental Affairs	Contact
162.	Sweden	Mr. Staffan Löwhagen	Ministry of Climate and Enterprise	Contact
163.	Switzerland	Mr. Vincent Bohnenblust	Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications DETEC	Contact
164.	Switzerland	Ms. Andrea Zbinden	FFederal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications DETEC	Contact
165.	Syrian Arab Republic	Eng. Ms. Iman Blal	Ministry of Local Administration and Environment	Contact
166.	Tajikistan	Mr. Faromuz Saidov		Contact
167.	Thailand	Mr. Chaowalit Jangaksorn	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment	Contact
168.	Thailand	Ms. Preeyaporn Suwanaged	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment	Contact
169.	North Macedonia	Ms. Frosina Antonovska	Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning	Contact
170.	Timor-Leste	Mr. Carlos Lopes Ximenes	Secretariat of State for Environment	Contact
171.	Togo	Ms. Kayi Obidon Emefa Ajavon	Ministère de l'environnement et des ressources forestières	Contact
172.	Trinidad and Tobago	Mr. Maurice Wishart	Enviornmental Management Authority	Contact
173.	Trinidad and Tobago	Ms. Rhea Robinson	Environment Management Authority	Contact
174.	Tunisia	Ms. Nahed Jmour Kelai	Ministry of Environment	Contact
175.	Turkey	Mr. Cem Bahadir Şener	Ministry of Environment and Urbanization	Contact
176.	Uganda	Ms. Doreen Tumuhaire	National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)	Contact
177.	Uganda	Ms. Sarah Naigaga	Ministry of Infrastructure, Natural Resources and Environment	Contact
178.	Ukraine	Mr.Roman Shakhmatenko	Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources	Contact
179.	United Arab Emirates	Eng. Ms. Aisha Mohamed Abdullah Al Abdooli	Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment	Contact
180.	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Ms. Eva Huehne	Government Legal Department	Contact
181.	United Republic of Tanzania	Ms. Kemilembe Mutasa	Vice Presidents Office	Contact
182.	United States of America	Mr. Patrick Huber	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency	Contact
183.	Uruguay	Mr. Marcelo J. Cousillas	Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Montevideo	Contact
184.	Uzbekistan	Mr. Mukhammadyusufkhon Ikromov	Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change	Contact
185.	Vanuatu	Mr. Philip Benedict	Ministry of Climate Change	Contact
186.	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	Mrs. Ada Carolina Fernandez Urdaneta	Ministry of People's Power for Ecosocialism	Contact
187.	Viet Nam	Mr. Phan Tuan Hung	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE)	Contact
188.	Zambia	Ms. Karen Banda	Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA)	Contact
189.	Zimbabwe	Mr. Farai Nyahwa	Environmental Management Agency	Contact
190.	State of Palestine*	Mr. Murad Monzir ALMadani	Environment Quality Authority, Palestine	Contact
191.	Niue*	Dr. Josie Tamate	Ministry of Infrastructure, Government of Niue	Contact
192.	Niue*	Dr. Josie Tamate	Ministry of Infrastructure, Government of Niue	Contact
193.	Paraguay	Mr. Hugo Cardozo	Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development	Contact
194.	Paraguay	Mr. Victor Andres Gonzalez Bedoya	Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development	Contact
195.	Cook Islands (the)*	Ms. Tekura Moeka'a	National Environment Service	Contact
196.	Cook Islands (the)*	Ms. Roselyn Strickland	National Environment Service.	Contact