Decision 93/100

December 2023
China
World Bank
Production approvals and reports

The Executive Committee decided

  1. To invite the Government of China, through the World Bank, to submit, at the 95th meeting, an update on the development of technical guidelines being developed by the Government of China for reporting on HFC-23 generation and emissions and a description of the methodology used to report that generation and those emissions under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol; 
  2. To invite the Government of China, through the World Bank, to provide an update at the 95th meeting containing the most recent information on HFC-23 generation, destruction and emissions in China and any relevant regulatory or implementation updates; 
  3. To invite the Government of China, through the World Bank, to submit to the 95th meeting an analysis that would clarify the discrepancy between Article 7 reporting and the 2021 and 2022 verification reports; and
  4. To request the Secretariat to engage with the World Bank and provide further analysis at the 95thmeeting on the mass balance emissions estimates as compared to Article 7 reporting, as referenced in paragraph 12 of document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/93/SGP/4.