Decision 92/36

June 2023
HCFC phase-out management plans related

Subsequently, the Executive Committee decided:

  1. To note the report on end-user incentive schemes funded under the approved HCFC phase-out management plans (HPMPs) contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/92/43;
  2. To continue to apply decision 84/84 in the consideration of end-user incentive schemes submitted for funding under the HPMPs;
  3. Not to apply decision 84/84 to technology demonstration projects involving a limited number of end users or to end-user leakage-reduction programmes when they were submitted for funding under the HPMPs;
  4. To consider end-user-related projects submitted for funding under Kigali HFC implementation plans on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the considerations set out in paragraph 46 of document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/92/43;
  5. To request Article 5 countries and bilateral and implementing agencies, when designing end-user incentive schemes, to consider factors that would contribute to the sustainability and scalability of the adoption of low-global-warming-potential alternatives by end users, such as potential energy-efficiency gains and opportunities for additional modalities and sources of funding, whenever possible and on a voluntary basis;
  6. To request the Secretariat to provide the Executive Committee, at its first meeting in 2028, with an updated version of the report contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/92/43, including updated project results, the cost‑effectiveness analysis, a discussion of the impact of the decision on such projects and other observations so as to allow the Executive Committee to reassess the effectiveness and sustainability of end-user incentive schemes and demonstration projects directed at end users; and
  7. To request the Secretariat to develop, in collaboration with the bilateral and implementing agencies, a system to record and report consistently on the phase‑out/phase-down achieved through end-user projects and on energy-efficiency gains, where applicable, on the understanding that the approach would be applied to any end-user projects approved from the 93rd meeting onward.