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FP175 - Enhancing community resilience and water security in the Upper Athi River Catchment Area, Kenya
Water security is a key issue for Kenya. The country has limited freshwater and faces chronic water scarcity and high rainfall variability, which are worsened by climate change impacts. The Athi River Catchment is the...
Project > Public sector Kenya 
FP176 - Hydro-agricultural development with smart agriculture practices resilient to climate change in Niger
Climate change has adversely affected Niger’s agriculture, which is the country’s main income source and livelihood for most of the population. Irregular rainfall, short rainy seasons, droughts, flooding and lack of...
Project > Public sector Niger (the) 
FP177 - Cooling Facility
As global temperatures increase and the demand for cooling rises, so do the emission levels of greenhouse and fluorinated gases, which have a very high global warming potential. Reports cite that at 1.5°C of warming –...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
Scaling-Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall (SURAGGWA)
The Sahel has experienced some of the most extreme climate events on earth in the 20th century, and data from 1900 shows clear long-term climate change with a tendency towards higher temperatures, lower precipitation...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries
Call for Public Inputs: Revisions to the Green Climate Fund’s Environmental and Social Policy (ESP) to reaffirm the Fund’s commitment to addressing Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Abuse, and Sexual Harassment (SEAH)
The mission of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is to promote the paradigm shift towards low- emission and climate-resilient development pathways by providing support to developing countries to limit or reduce their...
Document > Call for input
Scaling up CoP annual workshop: Climate Change Working Group event
UNFCCC COP26 is a unique milestone for ambitious and decisive actions to reinforce global solidarity to maintain temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius while promoting resilience to the impact of climate change. As...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Supporting developing countries on the road to a climate-resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
... Climate Funds’ operations and will continue to do so in 2021 and 2022. We are taking steps to provide additional ... met its disbursement target in 2020 and will exceed it in 2021. Second, GCF’s Readiness Programme is offering ...
Article > Statement 
IFAD and GCF scale-up action to improve life for millions of people and restore ecosystems in Africa’s Great Green Wall
... of $1 billion in multi-partner resources for the GGW in 2021 and 2022. Climate change is a driver of hunger. In ...
Article > Press release 
The role of the Green Climate Fund in scaling up finance for climate action and resilience
... put the Paris Agreement’s goals within striking distance. 2021 is a critical year for action. President Biden’s ...
Article > Speech
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2020
... for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond, and the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26). Investors at the ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Green Climate Fund Board approves USD 1 billion for climate action, sets out strategic vision
... The ambitious work programme the Board has approved for 2021 will give further momentum to making our operations ...
Article > Press release 
GCF-1 Progress Report
... Annual Results Report 2020 and GCF Annual Results Report 2021 . For information on GCF’s initial resource ...
Basic page
At Climate Ambition Summit, UN agencies and IFRC kickstart major initiative towards realising Early Warnings for All by 2027
... events caused 11,778 reported disasters between 1970 and 2021 , with just over 2 million deaths and $4.3 trillion in ...
Article > Press release 
The Green Climate Fund achieves record-breaking year as Board channels USD 3.26 billion to developing countries in 2025
... high surpassing the previous record of USD 2.9 billion in 2021. This record achievement emphasizes the Fund’s ...
Article > Press release 
Policies: Terms of reference
Terms of reference
Policies under this category set out the terms of reference for GCF’s committees, panels and groups, independent units and the trustee.
Basic page > Policy map
Enhancing Direct Access Guidelines
The Green Climate Fund (GCF), Enhancing Direct Access (EDA) pilot intends to boost access by sub-national, national and regional, public, and private entities to GCF climate finance.
EDA promotes country ownership of...
Document > Publication, Guides
Country programme guidance
Green Climate Fund (GCF) Country Programmes are the cornerstone of each country’s pipeline development with GCF. It is the first stage of the updated GCF project and programme cycle, and forms the basis for prioritising...
Document > Publication, Guides
GCF/B.28/04 - Addressing gaps in the current portfolio for measurement
This document presents an assessment of the portfolio monitoring and evaluation (M&E) gaps by the Secretariat as requested by the Board (decision B.22/13, paragraph (c)) in response to document GCF/B.22/07/Add.01...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.28/09 - Integrated Results Management Framework
This document presents the GCF’s Integrated Results Management Framework (IRMF), intended to merge the initial results management framework (decision B.07/04) and performance measurement frameworks (decision B.08/07)...
Board document > Action item
Building resilient and healthy Cook islands communities
An initial funding proposal (FP) “Building Resilient and Healthy Cook Islands Communities” has previously been submitted to the GCF for review. The FP was based upon an SAP Concept Note submitted to the GCF in January...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Cook Islands
Strengthening on-ground community resilience and sustainability to climate change in the Kingdom of Tonga
Tonga is ranked as the second or third most vulnerable country to climate change impacts in the world, whilst contributing a negligible amount to global greenhouse gas emissions. In Tonga, the multiple and cumulative...
Document > Concept note Tonga
Enhancing resilience of communities, smallholders and ecosystems to climate change impacts through adapting and scaling up land/resources used systems in the Marajo archipelago in Brazil
The project entitled, “Enhancing resilience of smallholders and ecosystems to climate change impacts through adapting and scaling up land/resources used systems in the Marajo Archipelago in Brazil” seeks to increase...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Brazil
Innovation is imperative, GCF tells Leaders Climate Summit
'Innovation is imperative to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement'. That was the message from GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec, speaking to the Leaders' Summit on Climate hosted by President Biden...
Article > Press release 
Thematic brief: Ecosystems & ecosystem services
Ecosystems consist of plants, animal and microorganism communities (including for example, rainforests, coral reefs, agricultural land and managed forests), while ecosystem goods and services are the benefits to human...
Document > Thematic brief
GCF/B.29/05 - Review of Secretariat capabilities to deliver the updated Strategic Plan for 2020 – 2023
This document presents a review of the Secretariat’s capabilities to deliver increased programming and implementation over 2020-23 in line with ambitions of the GCF updated Strategic Plan (USP), endorsed by the Board at...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.29/12 - Integrated Results Management Framework
This document presents GCF’s integrated results management framework (IRMF), which is intended to merge the initial results management framework (decision B.07/04) and performance measurement frameworks (decision B.08/...
Board document > Action item
GCF and UNIDO partnership agreement bolster climate-resilient industrial development
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has taken another step towards greening the industry sector, one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, by signing a partnership agreement with the United Nations Industrial...
Article > Press release 
African adaptation
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Climate impacts are materializing far faster than expected twenty years ago. With agriculture as the backbone of Africa’s economy, climate change is particularly affecting the...
Article > Speech
Agriculture adaptation
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
The world is not on track to achieve the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. For the past 5 years, the number of people suffering from hunger has been on the rise, with climate change...
Article > Speech
Finance
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
The United Nations Environment Programme estimates that adapting to the devastating impacts of climate change will require between USD140 to USD300 billion annually by 2030. As...
Article > Speech