The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) headquartered in Switzerland, is a non-profit organisation that operates internationally in over 150 countries with a wide range of members and partners, including States and government agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), scientists and experts to find practical solutions to environment conservation and sustainable development challenges. It has a strong presence in countries in transition, least developed countries and small island developing States through its regional offices. Its overall programme of work focuses on valuing and conserving nature, ensuring effective and equitable governance of its use, and deploying nature-based solutions to global challenges such as climate change. IUCN does this by undertaking and supporting scientific research, managing and implementing field projects on the ground and bringing together various stakeholders to develop and improve policies, laws and best practices. Currently, IUCN has a project portfolio amounting to USD 330 million in grants. It is estimated that half of this portfolio addresses climate change adaptation issues, while 10 percent contributes to climate change mitigation through greenhouse gas emission reductions. IUCN intends to add significant value to GCF by implementing its mandate to build capacity, especially in relation to its national government and NGO members. IUCN also plans not only to work towards channelling funding from GCF to recipient countries, but also to contribute to enhancing their capacity to ensure that they have direct access to multilateral funding.
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Environmental and social risk category
Category C
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Category A
Intermediation 3
Intermediation 2
Intermediation 1
Fiduciary standards
Basic
Project management
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On-lending/blending:
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Projects
FP167
Cross-cutting
Rwanda
Transforming Eastern Province through Adaptation
FP151
Mitigation
Multiple countries
Global Subnational Climate Fund (SnCF Global) – Technical Assistance (TA) Facility
FP131
Cross-cutting
Nepal
Improving Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Communities and Ecosystems in the Gandaki River Basin, Nepal
FP124
Adaptation
Sri Lanka
Strengthening Climate Resilience of Subsistence Farmers and Agricultural Plantation Communities residing in the vulnerable river basins, watershed areas and downstream of the Knuckles Mountain Range Catchment of Sri Lanka
FP113
Adaptation
Kenya
TWENDE: Towards Ending Drought Emergencies: Ecosystem Based Adaptation in Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Rangelands
FP087
Adaptation
Guatemala
Building livelihood resilience to climate change in the upper basins of Guatemala’s highlands
GCF signs public-private partnership agreements to launch Global Subnational Climate Fund
23 Feb 2021 / The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has joined forces with Pegasus Capital Advisors and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in an innovative bundling of public-private financing to plug a funding gap for sub-national climate initiatives.
GCF announced it has signed funding agreements with both organisations during a virtual briefing session for UN representatives in New York about the Global Subnational Climate Fund (SnCF Global), created to address a major deficit in climate finance.
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