Status of financial contributions to the Trust Funds

The Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (COP), in decision I/9 adopted at its first meeting, 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 First Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol 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 based on the United Nations scale of assessments. The scale is adjusted to provide that no one contribution exceeds 22 per cent of the total and no contribution is required when the scale provides for a contribution of less than 0.1 per cent.

The COP and the MOP approve the budget and the contributions for the Convention on a triennial basis and for the Protocol on an annual basis, respectively. The Ozone Secretariat manages the contributions received in these trust funds in accordance with the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations.

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 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.

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