Decision 94/49

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the Kigali HFC implementation plan (KIP) for Paraguay for the period 2024–2029 to reduce HFC consumption by 10 per cent of the country’s baseline by 2029, in the amount of US $471,350, plus agency support costs of US $32,995, for UNDP, as reflected in the schedule contained in annex XLI to the present report;
2. To note:
   1. That the Government of Paraguay would establish its starting point for sustained aggregate reductions in HFC consumption based on the 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);
   4. That upon completion of the end-user technology demonstration project in the commercial refrigeration sector included in stage I of the KIP, UNDP would submit a final report on the implementation of the project, including the HFC phase‑out and energy-efficiency gains achieved, in line with decision 92/36(g);
3. To note also:
   1. That the Government of Paraguay would continue to monitor HFC consumption to understand the extent to which consumption reported in baseline years was representative of the local market’s needs and assess what future HFC demand would be, and that it would provide that analysis when submitting the second tranche of the KIP;
   2. That, on the basis of the information provided in subparagraph (c)(i) above, the maximum allowable consumption limits for the remaining years of stage I of the KIP, as contained in Appendix 2-A to the future Agreement between the Government of Paraguay and the Executive Committee, would be revised, if appropriate, when the Committee considered the second tranche of the KIP;
4. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the KIP for Paraguay, and the corresponding tranche implementation plan, in the amount of US $235,675, plus agency support costs of US $16,497, for UNDP; and
5. To request the Government of Paraguay, UNDP and the Secretariat to finalize the draft Agreement between the Government of Paraguay 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.