The Executive Committee decided:
- To approve, in principle, stage I of the Kigali HFC implementation plan (KIP) for Sri Lanka for the period 2025–2029, to reduce HFC consumption by 10 per cent of the country’s baseline, in the amount of US $455,677, consisting of US $304,025, plus agency support costs of US $21,282, for UNDP and US $115,372, plus agency support costs of US $14,998, for UNEP;
- To note:
- That the Government of Sri Lanka would establish its starting point for sustained aggregate reductions in HFC consumption on the basis of guidance provided by the Executive Committee;
- That, once the Executive Committee had provided the guidance referred to in subparagraph (b)(i), above, reductions from the country’s remaining HFC consumption eligible for funding would be determined in line with that guidance;
- 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), above;
- That the Government of Sri Lanka would submit no further funding requests from the Multilateral Fund for any enterprise in the commercial refrigeration subsector for equipment with HFC consumption of less than 0.5 kg per unit, in line with decision 19/32(a);
- That the Government of Sri Lanka would prohibit the import, sale and use of HFC based domestic refrigerators and the manufacturing of R-410A based residential air conditioners by 1 January 2028;
- To approve the Agreement between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Executive Committee for the reduction in consumption of HFCs in accordance with stage I of the KIP, contained in annex XXVIII to the present report; and
- To approve the first tranche of stage I of the KIP for Sri Lanka, and the corresponding tranche implementation plan, in the amount of US $267,276, consisting of US $201,211, plus agency support costs of US $14,085, for UNDP and US $46,000, plus agency support costs of US $5,980, for UNEP.