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 Protocol is to assist developing country parties to the Montreal Protocol whose annual per capita consumption and production of ozone depleting substances (ODS) is less than 0.3 kg to comply with the control measures of the Protocol. Currently, 147 of the 196 Parties to the Montreal Protocol meet these criteria (they are referred to as Article 5 countries). It embodies the principle agreed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 that countries have a common but differentiated responsibility to protect and manage the global commons. The Fund is managed by an Executive Committee with an equal representation