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The Fifty-fifth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to consider a facility for additional income from loans and other sources to be maintained and the potential uses of those funds.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/55/53, Decision 55/2(f), para. 29(b)).
The Fifty-sixth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request that the discussions held at the 56th Meeting be taken into account when preparing a revision of the desk study on the evaluation of chiller projects and when preparing a policy paper on "a facility for additional income from loans and other sources" in response to decision 55/2.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/56/64, Decision 56/10 para 65).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/56/11/Add.1).
The Fifty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Secretariat:
(a) to take note of the document on the facility for additional income from loans and other sources (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/57/64).
(b) to prepare a paper on a special funding facility within the Multilateral Fund, together with an executive summary. The paper should take into account the views that had been expressed at the 57th Meeting as compiled by the Secretariat, and would be posted on its intranet, together with any views received by the Secretariat during the intersessional period; and
(c) to submit the revised paper to the Executive Committee at its 58th Meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/57/69, Decision 57/37 para 192).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/57/64).
The Fifty-eighth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(b) that the detailed account of the Executive Committee’s discussion on the establishment of a facility for additional income and loans and other sources would be included in the Report of the Executive Committee to the Twenty-first Meeting of the Parties, together with a reference to the document considered by the Executive Committee on the subject (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/58/49);
(c) to request the Secretariat to prepare a further concept paper for the 59th Meeting expanding on papers presented to date with respect to the elements raised at the 58th Meeting, and in particular, highlighting a definition of a facility and the added value of establishing a facility;
(d) to request the Secretariat and the Treasurer to address the implications of optimally managing credits for climate change and other environmental benefits from the global carbon markets with a view to making that component of a facility operational;
(e) to request the Secretariat to seek advice from external carbon market specialists on how the market might best be employed in the longer term in the context of a facility;
(f) to accept the offer of the World Bank to make a representative from its Treasury Department available to the 59th Meeting of the Executive Committee to present mechanisms, such as advanced commitments, for dealing with additional financing and blending Multilateral Fund funds with carbon financing; and
(g) to defer consideration of requests for resource mobilization pending further discussion on this topic.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/58/53, Decision 58/37 para 171 (b, c, d, e, f).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/58/49).
The Fifty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Secretariat to consolidate the material presented during the Meeting on the Special Funding Facility, with any additional contributions submitted by Members by the end of 2009, into a single agenda item addressing both the Facility as well as any issues related to decision XIX/6 paragraph 11(b) of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Parties for consideration at its 60th Meeting.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/59/59, Decision 59/48 para 263f).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/59/54).
The Sixtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Secretariat to present the report of the Executive Committee on the special funding facility to the 30th Meeting of the of the Open-ended Working Group of Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (OEWG), based on Annex V to document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/60/50, the “Excerpt from Report of the 59th Meeting of the Executive Committee, Agenda item 12: Further Concept Paper for a Special Funding Facility for Additional Income from Loans and Other Sources (decision 58/37)”..
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/60/54, Decision 60/48 para 209).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/60/50).
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