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Uganda Investing in Forests and Protected Areas for Climate-Smart Development Project
The objective of the project is to improve sustainable management of forests and protected areas and increase benefits to communities from forests in target landscapes. The project will support the government agenda of...
Document > Concept note Uganda
Transforming the Landscape for Off-Grid Electrification in the Philippines
The project is an expanded pilot for the construction of 7.8MW comprising of 6MW on-grid solar and 1.8MW of off-grid solar micro-grid. The project will further validate the public- private partnership model and expand...
Document > Concept note Philippines (the)
Amazon Sustainable Economy and Protection Program
The program objective is to change the trend of deforestation rate in priority areas in de Brazilian Amazon accordingly with the country NDC. Deforestation is the main source of GHG emissions in Brazil and had an...
Document > Concept note Brazil
Sustainable Urban Transport Project
The Sustainable Urban Transport project is envisioned to reduce the growth rate of the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) and air pollutant emissions from the transport sector while enhancing sustainable mobility through...
Document > Concept note Philippines (the)
Strengthening the resilience of the communities in the Dead Sine Valley
Climate change has already led to ecosystem degradation in the Dead Sine Valley. Multiple droughts and the rising sea level have increased the salinization of land and water resources. Yields and farm incomes have...
Document > Concept note Senegal
Climate-resilient Agriculture, Forestry and Land-use in Chindwin River Basin (CAFOLU-Chindwin)
This Concept Note (CN) proposes a GCF project, “Climate-resilient ...
Document > Concept note Myanmar
Mainstreaming Climate Smart Planning and Implementation into Agricultural Development
Agriculture is a highly climate sensitive sector, and future climate change poses key risks that will affect national economic growth and millions of livelihoods in Rwanda. The sector is also the largest source of...
Document > Concept note Rwanda
Strengthening the resilience of small and medium-sized fruit and vegetable producers to climate change induced water insecurity in Central Serbia
Climate change is causing an increase in the frequency and intensity of droughts in Central Serbia, which is leading to significant losses in fruit and vegetable production for small farms relying on rainfed agriculture...
Document > Concept note Serbia
Recharge Pakistan: Building Pakistan’s Resilience to Climate Change through Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Integrated Flood Risk Management
The Indus River is Pakistan’s lifeline, and is now experiencing catastrophic floods and droughts exacerbated by climate change. Pakistan relies on costly hard-infrastructure flood and water management measures with...
Document > Concept note Pakistan
Enhancing Adaptive Capacity and Resilience of Vulnerable Communities and Ecosystems to Climate Change Impacts in the Cattle Corridor of Uganda
Uganda's Cattle Corridor is most affected by climate change. The corridor stretches from south-western to north-eastern Uganda. It is characterised by livestock production, scarce water and pastures. Although it is...
Document > Concept note Uganda
Scaling up ecosystem-based approaches to managing climate-intensified disaster risks in vulnerable regions of South Africa
Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of droughts, floods and wildfires in South Africa, threatening the ecosystems that underpin rural livelihoods and the South African economy. Well managed...
Document > Concept note South Africa
An integrated response for climate change mitigation and adaptation for agriculture in Samoa, Vanuatu and Tonga
Climate Change is the most important issue facing the 3 countries this project will operate in - Tonga, Vanuatu and Samoa. This project has been designed to support farmers to adapt to the its impacts as well as to...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries
Scaling the Communal Reserve Co-management Model to Reduce Emissions and Build Resilience of Indigenous People in the Peruvian Amazon
Amazonian indigenous peoples are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, particularly indigenous women. The proposed project aims to empower indigenous people to adapt to increased temperatures,...
Document > Concept note Peru
Low carbon buses for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in Vientiane Capital
The project will contribute to reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality under a new sustainable transportation system being implemented in Vientiane Capital. The project involves introducing electric vehicles in...
Document > Concept note Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)
River Restoration for Climate Change Adaptation (RIOS)
Mexico is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, such as the increase in extreme events, which are affecting watersheds (droughts, floods, landslides), and the negative ecological, economic, and social...
Document > Concept note Mexico
Heritage Colombia (HECO): Maximizing the Contributions of Sustainably Managed Landscapes in Colombia for Achievement of Climate Goals
Heritage Colombia (HECO) will generate significant mitigation and adaptation benefits through a paradigm shifting landscape approach in Colombia associated with a proven model for securing long-term financing for the...
Document > Concept note Colombia
Climate-Informed Watershed Management in the Northern Pacific Region of Costa Rica
As a result of climate change, the northern Pacific region of Costa Rica will experience a significant decrease in precipitations and increase in temperatures, leading to more frequent and severe droughts. This will...
Document > Concept note Costa Rica
Rural Enterprise incentives through performance-based fiance for forest landscape restoration and low emissions developement: Private Sector jurisdictional models for a Green Economy in Equateur, Mongala and Tshopo Provinces
The project aim is to reduce land based emissions by establishing private se sub-national jurisdictional ER programs in the three target provinces by reinf legal and managerial frameworks to stimulate green economic...
Document > Concept note Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
Cross border programme to enhance resilience of oases ecosystems and livelihoods in the North African region
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, one of the harshest environments on Earth, covering nearly a third of the African continent. This area is being impacted by Climate change and natural climate cycles...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries
Promoting a climate-resilient agriculture sector to increase the climate resilience of vulnerable populations and to reduce deforestation in Sud- Ubangi province
The project addresses GHG emissions resulting from high rates of deforestation, that are the consequence of poor natural resource management, damaging agriculture practices and the vulnerability of the population and...
Document > Concept note Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
Enabling Paradigm Shift Towards Low-carbon Transport in Montenegro
Montenegro’s transport sector is a significant source of GHG emissions, estimated at 563,000 tCO2e in 2015 and forecasted to grow to 993,000 tCO2e (30% of the national GHG emissions) by 2030. Building on the recently-...
Document > Concept note Montenegro
Preservation and restoration of ecosystem services with an emphasis on water security for climate change adaptation and mitigation and increased resilience of vulnerable family farmers.
The Valles Macroregion of Bolivia is experiencing increasing rainfall variability as a result of climate change. Smallholder farmers are particularly vulnerable in light of greater rainfall unpredictability and land...
Document > Concept note Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
RE-ACT (Resilient Action Guyana): Increasing climate resilience of vulnerable ecosystems and rural communities in Guyana’s coastal areas
Natural dynamics of the coastal zone are being influenced by climate change (CC) owing to increased mean annual temperature and precipitation that lead to unpredictable floods and drought periods which are expected to...
Document > Concept note Guyana
Increasing resilience to the health risks of climate change in the Federated States of Micronesia
Climate change is creating new risks to already burdened human health in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), in particular through increasing the exposure of humans to vector-,water- and food-borne diseases. The...
Document > Concept note Micronesia (Federated States of)
Support green development poles to strengthen the resilience to climate change of communities, ecosystems and agro-silvopastoral production systems of municipalities in the Brakna Region in Mauritania
The Brakna region is facing severe climatic change characterized by the decrease and poor distribution of rainfall and the increase in temperature over the years. The expected increase in temperature and rainfall...
Document > Concept note Mauritania
Vanuatu Community-based Climate Resilience Project
Vanuatu is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries. Communities suffer an existing adaptation deficit. The Vanuatu Community-based Climate Resilience Project seeks to: reduce the climate-related vulnerabilities of...
Document > Concept note Vanuatu
Strengthening the Resilience of Vulnerable Family Farms to Climate Change in the Fourth Agricultural Development Pole in Benin
Benin is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The effects of the global warming are already perceptive across the country in terms of temperature increase, rainfall decrease and in several areas and...
Document > Concept note Benin
Towards climate change resilient coastal fisheries and aquaculture in Tonga
Climate change in Tonga poses a severe threat to the coastal fisheries and aquaculture sectors, which play a significant role in food and nutrition security, local livelihoods and the national economy. More severe...
Document > Concept note Tonga
Financing mechanism for local adaptation [local climate adaptive living facility - local]
Brief summary of the problem statement and climate rationale, objective and selected implementation approach, including the executing entity(ies) and other implementing partners, including who will be implementing the...
Document > Concept note Benin
Enhancing Land-based Adaptation and Resilient Green Economies in Makueni, Kajiado, Machakos and Kitui Counties in Kenya
Kenya’s dryland populations experience environmental degradation and poverty. Climate variability and change exacerbate these problems, as increasing droughts, floods and water stress impact rainfed agriculture and...
Document > Concept note Kenya