Publications

The Green Climate Fund issues a range of publications for our direct and indirect stakeholders on a diversity of issues – for the general public to industry experts. Stay in tune with our mission and activities around the planet with the issues that speak to you.

Featured publications

Country platforms for climate finance

This brochure describes GCF’s approach to country platforms, including an overview of the concept, the potential impact and the end-to-end support GCF can provide.

Locally Led Climate Action

The Green Climate Fund is committed to ensuring climate finance reaches the most vulnerable and to scaling up direct access through Locally Led Climate Action (LLCA).

Climate investment planning and mobilization framework

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the NDC Partnership proudly launched the Climate Investment Planning and Mobilization Framework (Framework) to support countries in achieving national climate action. It aims to provide a common reference point fo

GCF Strategic Plan 2024-2027 overview

This overview provides a brief synopsis of GCF’s Strategic Plan. For more details about the Strategic Plan, visit here.

Debt for climate swaps: exploring avenues and opportunities

The intersection of escalating public debt and the deepening climate crisis presents a dual challenge of paramount significance, particularly in Lower-Income Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States.

Adaptation: Accelerating action towards a climate resilient future

April 2019

This working paper contributes to adaptation knowledge from the perspective of climate financing. It provides an overview of adaptation and resilience challenges, the distinction between them, and discusses the avenues that GCF is developing to tackle them, together with countries and many stakeholders including the private sector. Ultimately, it is hoped that this paper will inform the design and scaling up of more successful adaptation investments. Through focused investments in these...

GCF in Brief: Enhancing Direct Access

March 2019

The Enhancing Direct Access (EDA) pilot has been designed to provide Direct Access Entities (DAEs) with opportunities to move beyond the financing of individual projects towards a more comprehensive and stakeholder-driven programmatic approach. This factsheet provides an overview of the EDA pilot.

GCF in Brief: Support for Technology

December 2018

Technology solutions and innovations are instrumental to facilitate the move towards low-emission and climate- resilient pathways. Climate technologies can cover sectors such as energy supply and distribution, industry, transport, waste and agriculture. GCF supports developing countries in mitigation and adaptation actions as well as in capacity-building and technology development and transfer.

GCF in Brief: The Replenishment Process

November 2018

In October 2018, the GCF Board decided to launch its first replenishment. The replenishment is an expression of global solidarity and partnership with countries and communities most affected by climate change.

GCF in Brief: REDD+

May 2018

REDD+ is a financing model negotiated under the UNFCCC to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. It is divided into three phases, which are roughly associated with readiness, implementation, and payment for results. This factsheet provides an overview of how GCF offers support for REDD+ across all three phases.

GCF in Brief: Safeguards

May 2018

The Green Climate Fund makes sure the climate finance it provides developing countries is not accompanied by negative effects to local communities and the environment. You can find out more about how GCF avoids harm through its Environmental and Social Policy and Indigenous Peoples Policy in this factsheet.

Mainstreaming gender in Green Climate Fund projects

August 2017

This manual addresses GCF’s potential to mainstream gender into climate finance, building on its mandate to support a paradigm shift to low-emission and climate-resilient development. Developed with UN Women, this toolkit guides GCF partners on how to include women, girls, men, and boys from socially excluded and vulnerable communities in all aspects of climate finance. Gender mainstreaming is central to GCF’s objectives and guiding principles, including through engaging women and men of all...

GCF Spotlight: Africa

Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest dedicated fund for climate action, serving the Paris Agreement. This factsheet provides a snapshot of GCF's operations in Africa.

GCF at a glance

This publication is a useful reference of GCF's portfolio, providing an overview of GCF's projects and programmes, geographic distribution, and breakdowns of GCF funding.

GCF Spotlight: Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest dedicated fund for climate action, serving the Paris Agreement. This factsheet provides a snapshot of GCF's operations in SIDS.

GCF Spotlight: Asia-Pacific

The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest dedicated fund for climate action, serving the Paris Agreement. This factsheet provides an overview of GCF's operations in the Asia Pacific region.

GCF Spotlight: Eastern Europe

The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest dedicated fund for climate action, serving the Paris Agreement. This factsheet provides an overview of GCF's operations in Eastern Europe.

GCF Spotlight: Latin America and the Caribbean

The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest dedicated fund for climate action, serving the Paris Agreement. This factsheet provides and overview of GCF's operations in Latin America and the Caribbean.

GCF Spotlight: Least Developed Countries

The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest dedicated fund for climate action, serving the Paris Agreement. This factsheet provides an overview of GCF's operations in Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

GCF in Brief: Private sector financing

GCF promotes private sector investment through concessional instruments, including low-interest and long-tenor project loans, lines of credit to banks and other financial institutions, equity investments and risk mitigators, such as guarantees, first-loss protection, and grant-based capacity-building programmes. Learn more about GCF's private sector financing through this factsheet.

GCF at a glance: Performance metrics

This publication provides a detailed breakdown of performance metrics that show GCF’s operational progress as we seek to deliver climate finance more quickly and with greater impact.

GCF Spotlight: Land-locked developing countries

Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest dedicated fund for climate action, serving the Paris Agreement. This factsheet provides a snapshot of GCF's operations in land-locked developing countries.

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