Decision 93/66

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the Kigali HFC implementation plan (KIP) for Malawi for the period 2023–2030 to reduce, by 2030, HFC consumption by 54 per cent of the country’s baseline, in the amount of US $211,310, consisting of US $114,200, plus agency support costs of US $14,846, for UNEP and US $72,800, plus agency support costs of US $9,464, for UNIDO, as reflected in the schedule contained in annex L to the present report, taking into consideration the ambitious consumption reduction target of the Government of Malawi;
2. To note that the approval for stage I of the KIP included an additional 10 per cent above the levels of funding agreed in subparagraph b(ii) of decision 92/37, as an incentive for the ambitious reduction targets that the Government of Malawi aimed to achieve compared to the Montreal Protocol schedule;
3. To note that, upon completion of the end-user technology demonstration project included in stage I of the KIP, UNIDO would submit a final report on the implementation of the project, including the HFC phase-out and energy-efficiency gains achieved, in line with subparagraph (g) of decision 92/36; 
4. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the KIP for Malawi, and the corresponding tranche implementation plan, in the amount of US $76,840, consisting of US $39,000, plus agency support costs of US $5,070, for UNEP and US $29,000, plus agency support costs of US $3,770, for UNIDO; and
5. To request the Government of Malawi, UNEP, UNIDO and the Secretariat to finalize the draft Agreement between the Government of Malawi 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.