Decision 95/65

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the Kigali HFC implementation plan (KIP) for Guatemala for the period 2024–2029 to reduce HFC consumption by 15.9 per cent of the country’s baseline by 2029, in the amount of US $573,167, consisting of US $403,057, plus agency support costs of US $28,213, for UNIDO and US $125,573, plus agency support costs of US $16,324, for UNEP, as reflected in the schedule contained in annex XLI to the present report, on the understanding that the schedule, in particular rows 1.1 and 1.2, would be revised accordingly based on the recommendation of the Implementation Committee on the revision of the consumption data in the baseline years;
2. To note the strong commitment of the Government of Guatemala to support reductions in HFC consumption in advance of the Montreal Protocol targets;
3. To note also:
   1. That the Government of Guatemala would establish its starting point for sustained aggregate reductions in HFC consumption on the basis of 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 Guatemala’s remaining HFC consumption eligible for funding would be determined in line with those guidelines;
   3. That the reductions from Guatemala’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) above;
   4. That, upon completion of the end-user project included in stage I of the KIP, UNIDO would submit a final report on the implementation of this project, including the HFC phase-out and energy-efficiency gains achieved, in line with decision 92/36(g);
4. To note further:
   1. That the Government of Guatemala would continue to monitor HFC consumption to understand the extent to which reported consumption in baseline years was representative of the local market’s needs and to assess future HFC demand would be, and that it would provide this analysis when submitting the second tranche of its 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 Guatemala and the Executive Committee, would be revised, if appropriate, when the Committee considered the second tranche of the KIP;
5. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the KIP for Guatemala, and the corresponding tranche implementation plan, in the amount of US $279,890, consisting of US $251,019, plus agency support costs of US $17,571, for UNIDO and US $10,000, plus agency support costs of US $1,300, for UNEP; and
6. To request the Government of Guatemala, UNIDO, UNEP and the Secretariat to finalize the draft Agreement between the Government of Guatemala 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.