B.15/03: Guidance from the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22): Co-Chairs’ proposal

The Board, having considered document GCF/B.15/04 titled “Guidance from the twenty- second session of the Conference of the Parties: Co-Chairs’ proposal”:

  1. Takes note of the guidance from the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at its twenty-second session, in particular UNFCCC decision X/CP.22,1 titled “Report of the Green Climate Fund to the Conference of the Parties and guidance to the Green Climate Fund”;
  2. Requests the Secretariat to prepare a document for consideration by the Board at its sixteenth meeting that outlines the actions to be taken by the Board in order to facilitate an increase in proposals from direct access entities in the pipeline;
  3. Decides to include, where feasible, gender consideration in all of the activities of the GCF;
  4. Requests the Secretariat to include such information referred to in paragraph (b) above in its annual report to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;
  5. Decides in accordance with paragraph 38 of Rules of Procedure of the Board to invite the Chairs of the Technology Executive Committee and the Advisory Board of the Climate Technology Centre and Network to present to the Board at its seventeenth meeting during its consideration of options for supporting collaborative research and development;