Decision 81/48

Subsequently, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To note the progress report on the implementation of the fourth tranche of the HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP) for Ghana;
2. To request UNDP and the Government of Italy to continue assisting the Government of Ghana, during implementation of its HPMP, in identifying possible alternative refrigerants with low global-warming potential (GWP) for retrofits in the commercial refrigeration sector;
3. To request UNDP to report, in future progress reports on stage I of the HPMP, on the progress of the transition from the interim technology selected by the Government to lower-GWP refrigerants, in line with decision 75/62(c), including the availability of lower-GWP refrigerants on the market, until a lower-GWP technology had been fully introduced;
4. To approve the fifth tranche of stage I of the HPMP for Ghana, and the corresponding 2018–2019 tranche implementation plan, in the amount of US $202,175, consisting of US $125,000, plus agency support costs of US $9,375 for UNDP, and US $60,000, plus agency support costs of US $7,800 for the Government of Italy, on the understanding:
   1. That the consumption level and starting point would be reviewed when stage II of the HPMP was submitted; and
   2. That the sum of US $42,000 originally planned for the end-user incentive programme in the fifth tranche would be combined with the funding component of the sixth (2019) tranche for end-user conversions to low-GWP technologies or other activities to promote HCFC conversion to low-GWP alternatives in the sixth (2019) tranche.