Decision 93/61

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the Kigali HFC implementation plan (KIP) for Ecuador for the period 2023–2029 to reduce, by 2029, HFC consumption by 14 per cent of the country’s baseline, in the amount of US $729,944, plus agency support costs of US $51,096, for UNIDO, as reflected in the schedule contained in annex XLV to the present report;
2. To note:
   1. That in line with decision 91/59, stage I of the KIP included an additional US $267,885, plus agency support costs of US $18,752, for UNIDO, related to the project approved at the 91stmeeting to phase out 10.42 metric tonnes (14,901 carbon dioxide-equivalent tonnes) of HFC-134a at the commercial and domestic refrigerator manufacturing facility at Induglob;
   2. That the Government of Ecuador would establish its starting point for sustained aggregate reductions in HFC consumption on the basis of guidance provided by the Executive Committee;
   3. That, once the cost guidelines for HFC phase-down had been agreed by the Executive Committee, the reductions from the country’s remaining HFC consumption eligible for funding would be determined in accordance with those guidelines;
   4. That the reductions from the country’s remaining HFC consumption eligible for funding, referred to in subparagraph (b)(iii) above, would be deducted from the starting point referred to in subparagraph (b)(ii) above;
3. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the KIP for Ecuador, and the corresponding tranche implementation plan, in the amount of US $292,600, plus agency support costs of US $20,482, for UNIDO; and
4. To request the Government of Ecuador, UNIDO and the Secretariat to finalize the draft Agreement between the Government of Ecuador 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.