The Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention (VC) for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (COP), in decision VC I/9, established a Trust Fund for the Convention (the VC Trust Fund) to be administered by the Executive Director of UNEP. The VC Trust Fund finances expenditures approved by the parties to the Convention and receives contributions from them.

The Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MP) on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MOP), in decision I/14, established a Trust Fund for the Protocol (the MP Trust Fund) to be administered by the Executive Director of UNEP. The MP Trust Fund finances expenditures approved by the parties to the Protocol and receives the contributions from them.

In accordance with the terms of reference for the administration of the VC and MP trust funds, the contributions are to be based on the United Nations scale of assessments. The scale is adjusted to provide that no contribution exceeds 22 per cent of the total and no contribution is required when the scale is less than 0.1 per cent.

The COP and the MOP approve the budget and the contributions for the Convention on triennial basis and for the Protocol on an annual basis, respectively. The Secretariat reports to parties on the status of contributions as at 30 April, as at 30 September and as at 31 December every year. These updates are available on the Secretariat’s website (https://ozone.unep.org/meetings) under the respective pages of the meetings of the COP, MOP and the Open-Ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Delete the Ozone Layer.

To align itself with the practice of UNEP and other multilateral environmental agreements hosted by UNEP, the Ozone Secretariat started publishing reports on the status of contributions on its website on 11 April 2023.

The status of contributions will be updated on the webpage monthly. For further information, please contact Ms. Ann Gachingiri (Ann.Gachingiri@un.org).