📋 Tender Overview
Project ID
190178
Thematic Priority
Safeguarding the Environment
LocationMexico
Project ManagerYury SOROKIN
Donor
Montreal Protocol
Fund
Montreal Protocol
Gender Marker1 (Limited expected contribution to GE)
At the 83rd Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, UNIDO submitted a funding request to prepare a project for the control of HFC-23 by-product emissions in the HCFC production sector in Mexico.The project to be developed would enable the Government to comply with the HFC-23 by-product control obligations, including data regarding, costs and benefits and covering technical feasibility, economic viability, relevant credits that might be applicable in the future, and logistical, legal and transactional issues in relation to the following:(i) resuming operation of both the integrated on-site incinerator and the non-integrated on-site incinerator at the HCFC-22 production swing plant Quimobasicos, on the basis of three independent estimates of the costs/savings of doing so for each, including in relation to operation of the incinerator, compliance with standards for the management of hazardous waste, and monitoring and verifying the destruction of the HFC-23 by-product;(ii) importing HCFC-22 to meet demand in the domestic market, including a comparison of the price of sourcing it locally and internationally;(iii) destroying HFC-23 byproduct through irreversible transformation and other new conversion technologies, and storage options for HFC-23 management;(iv) shipping HFC-23 for off-site destruction by means of a technology approved by the Meeting of the Parties;(v) optimizing the HCFC-22 production to reduce the generation of the HFC-23 by product; and(vi) selling the HFC-23 for feedstock use or adapting the plant so that it could use HFC-23 for the production of HCFC-22. UNIDO was requested to include information regarding the relationship between the country’scontrol of HFC-23 by-product emissions and the nationally determined contributions of the Government under the Paris Agreement.At its 84th meeting, the Executive Committee had considered document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/84/70, which comprised policy issues arising in projects in Argentina and Mexico; and document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/84/72, which presented project proposal options for controlling and phasing out HFC-23 by-product emissions at Quimobásicos, Mexico. Following discussions in plenary, the Executive Committee had agreed to establish a contact group to hold additional discussions on the these documents.Following the discussions in the contact group, the Executive Committee had decided to defer its consideration of the projects to control HFC-23 by-product emissions in Mexico to the 85th meeting (decisions 84/91). In line with the intersessional approval process established for that meeting, the Executive Committee had decided to consider the project proposal and related policy matters at its 86th meeting
