China HCFC Phase-Out Project

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The development objective of the Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) Phase-out Project for China is to assist China to meet its HCFC consumption and production phase-out obligations: freeze of the production, and freeze of the consumption of HCFCs in the Polyurethane (PU) foam sector at the baseline level by 2013; and 10 percent reduction from the baseline level by 2015; as per the Montreal protocol, and by adopting low-carbon alternative technologies, where possible, as replacement of HCFCs. There are five components to the project. The first component of the project is investment in HCFC-141b consumption reduction in the PU foam sector. This component will make provision of support to foam system houses to modify their production process, in order to provide hydrocarbon pre-blended polyol to enterprises that cannot adopt full-scale hydrocarbon technology. The second component of the project is investment in HCFC production reduction. The funding under this component will be used to compensate HCFC producers for surrendering their production rights in part or in full in order to contribute to the national compliance with the production freeze and 10 percent production reduction in 2013 and 2015, respectively. The third component of the project is technical assistance and policy support. This component will make provision of support to activities related to identification and testing of potential substitutes for HCFCs. The fourth component of the project is project management. This component will make provision of technical assistance to improve the capacity of Foreign Economic Cooperation Office of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (FECO) and the Project Management Office (PMO) to manage, supervise, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the implementation of the project. The fifth component of the project is preparation of HCFC phase-out activities post 2015. This component scoping and preparation of activities and relevant studies as needed on HCFC phase-out beyond 2015.