Kigali Amendment Enabling Activities (EA)

National and international studies regarding the Vienna Convention on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer to which our country was a party in 1991 and the Montreal Protocol are carried out under the coordination of our Ministry. The Montreal Protocol was amended at the 28th Meeting of the Parties held in Kigali, Rwanda in October 2016, and the reduction of hydrofluorocarbons (HFC), which has a very strong greenhouse gas effect and affects climate change thousands of times more than Carbon dioxide, was added to the main text. With the Kigali change, the participating countries have committed to reduce the production and consumption of HFCs by more than 80 percent in the next 30 years. This reduction schedule is expected to prevent emissions of 80 billion tons of Carbon dioxide equivalent by 2050 in addition to protecting the ozone layer.

Among the projects carried out under the implementation of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Kigali Amendment Enabling Activities, which were approved in 2018 and implemented with a budget of 250,000 USD for an 18-month period, supports the parties  with the status of developing countries (Article 5 countries) under the Montreal Protocol for the adoption of the Kigali Amendment, initiation of institutional arrangements, establishing a licensing system for HFCs, negotiating with stakeholders and public institutions, and developing data collection methodologies and including HFC reduction processes. In addition, enabling activities allow the parties to fulfill their obligations in line with the Kigali Amendment HFC reduction targets.

Within the scope of the project by many workshops held by our Ministry, public institutions and private sector were informed on the obligations that our country would undertake after the ratification of Kigali, legislative changes, restrictions that the relevant sectors would face and new alternative technologies. In addition, within the scope of this project, a report was published in order to calculate the reference value of our country before HFC reduction with projections for the coming years by revealing the HFC consumption amounts and the sectors used in our country.