Robert K. Dixon of The World Bank Group, Dixon was Team Leader for Climate Change and Chemicals (2008 to 2015), overseeing a multibillion-dollar portfolio of energy, environment, public health, infrastructure, and transportation projects in developing and transition countries. Dixon has been a delegate to intergovernmental negotiating committees and subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 to present), Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (1989 to present), Minamata Convention on Mercury (2009 to 2015), the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (2006 to 2011), the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2004 to 2015), and
Montreal flood of 1987 of God". In 1988, all the cities on the Island of Montreal, regrouped into the Montreal Urban Community, set up a common "Emergencies Coordination Bureau" ("Bureau des mesures d'urgence"). In 1997, the bureau was renamed "Centre de sécurité civile". Following the Municipal reorganization in Quebec in 2002, most of the cities were regrouped into the greater Montreal and the center became the "Centre de sécurité civile de Montréal". Montreal flood of 1987 The Montreal flood of 1987 happened on July 14 of that year when a series of strong thunderstorms crossed the island of Montreal, Canada, between the noon hour