Decision 95/69

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve, in principle, stage I of the Kigali HFC implementation plan (KIP) for Nigeria for the period 2024-2029 to reduce HFC consumption by 10.13 per cent of the country’s baseline by 2029, in the amount of US $4,602,466, consisting of US $3,250,523, plus agency support costs of US $227,537, for UNDP, US $705,510, plus agency support cost of US $49,386, for UNIDO and US $327,000, plus agency support costs of US $42,510, for UNEP, as reflected in the schedule contained in annex XLIV to the present report;
2. To note:
   1. That the Government of Nigeria had submitted a request for revision of its HFC baseline to the Ozone Secretariat and would provide, as required, additional information to the Implementation Committee under the Non-Compliance Procedure for the Montreal Protocol at its 74th meeting, for the purpose of consideration of the request;
   2. That the country’s compliance with the maximum allowable consumption established for the year 2024 would be considered at the 97th meeting, once the Implementation Committee and the Thirty-Seventh Meeting of the Parties had considered the request for revision of the HFC baseline;
3. To request UNDP and the Government of Nigeria, in the event that the country’s HFC baseline was revised, to submit an updated project proposal for stage I of the KIP for consideration by the Executive Committee;
4. To note:
   1. That the Government of Nigeria 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 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 (d)(ii) above would be deducted from the starting point referred to in subparagraph (d)(i);
   4. That the Government of Nigeria would continue to monitor its HFC consumption to understand the extent to which reported consumption in baseline years was representative of the local market’s needs and to assess what future HFC demand would be, and would provide that analysis when submitting the second tranche of the KIP;
   5. That, on the basis of the information provided in subparagraph (d)(iv) above, the maximum allowable consumption limits for the remaining years of stage I of the KIP, as contained in Appendix 2-A of the future Agreement between the Government of Nigeria and the Executive Committee, would be revised, if appropriate, when the Committee considered the second tranche of the KIP; and
   6. That upon completion of the end-user pilot project included in stage I of the KIP, UNDP would submit a final report on the implementation of the present project, including the HFC phase-out and the energy efficiency gains achieved, in line with decision 92/36(g);
5. To approve the first tranche of stage I of the KIP for Nigeria, and the corresponding implementation plan, in the amount of US $2,937,893, consisting of US $1,902,050, plus agency support costs of US $133,144, for UNDP, US $705,510, plus agency support costs of US $49,386, for UNIDO and US $130,800, plus agency support costs of US $17,004, for UNEP; and

6. To request the Government of Nigeria, UNDP, UNIDO, UNEP and the Secretariat to finalize the draft Agreement between the Government of Nigeria 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.