Decision 94/44

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the Kigali HFC implementation plan (KIP) for Honduras for the period 2024–2029 to reduce HFC consumption by 15.5 per cent of the country’s baseline by 2029, in the amount of US $648,915, consisting of US $432,210, plus agency support costs of US $30,255, for UNIDO and US $165,000, plus agency support costs of US $21,450, for UNEP, as reflected in the schedule contained in annex XXXVI to the present report;
2. To note:
   1. That the Government of Honduras would establish its starting point for sustained aggregate reductions in HFC consumption on the basis of guidance provided by the Executive Committee;
   2. That, once the cost guidelines for HFC phase-down had been agreed by the Executive Committee, reductions from the country’s remaining HFC consumption eligible for funding would be determined in line with those guidelines;
   3. That the reductions from the country’s remaining HFC consumption eligible for funding referred to in subparagraph (b)(ii) above would be deducted from the starting point referred to in subparagraph (b)(i);
3. To note also:
   1. The strong commitment of the Government of Honduras to support reductions in HFC consumption in advance of the Montreal Protocol targets;
   2. The commitment from the Government of Honduras to issue a ban on the imports of used HFC-based domestic refrigerators from 1 January 2029;
   3. That the Government of Honduras had made a request to the Ozone Secretariat for correction of its Article 7 data for the years 2021 and 2022, and that, once those changes had been approved by the Meeting of the Parties, the Secretariat and UNIDO would adjust the HFC consumption baseline and maximum allowable consumption, as relevant, in the KIP Agreement between the Government of Honduras and the Executive Committee;
4. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the KIP for Honduras, and the corresponding tranche implementation plan, in the amount of US $321,903, consisting of US $226,918, plus agency support costs of US $15,885, for UNIDO and US $70,000, plus agency support costs of US $9,100, for UNEP; and
5. To request the Government of Honduras, UNIDO, UNEP and the Secretariat to finalize the draft Agreement between the Government of Honduras and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HFCs, including the information contained in the annex referred to in subparagraph (a) above, and to submit it to a future meeting once the KIP Agreement template had been approved by the Executive Committee.